The Master of Verona

In 1314, exiled poet Dante and his two sons, Pietro and his younger brother Jacopo, travel to Verona at the behest of its leader, Francesco "Cangrande" della Scalla, where Pietro becomes caught up the city's intrigues and finds himself in the middle of a growing rivalry between his best friends over a woman who is betrothed to the one and in love with the other. A first novel. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.