In the Hand of Dante

Nick Tosches

Original title: In the hand of Dante

first published 2002 Little, Brown, 2003 376 pages

Deep inside the Vatican library, a priest discovers the rarest and most valuable art object ever found: the manuscript of "The Divine Comedy," written in Dante's own hand. Via Sicily, the manuscript makes its way from the priest to a mob boss in New York City, where a writer named Nick Tosches is called to authenticate the prize. For this writer, the temptation is too great: he steals the manuscript in a last-chance...

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In the Hand of Dante paperback · 2003 · Back Bay Books · 384 pages · 9780316735643
In the hand of Dante edition · 2003 · Little, Brown · 376 pages
In the Hand of Dante ebook · 2002 · Little, Brown and Company · 9780759597747

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