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Words Can Bleed.
In 1865 Boston, the members of the Dante Club -- poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J.T. Fields -- are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and getting ready to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions onto American bookshelves will prove as corrupting as the immigrants surviving in Boston Harbor.
Because they struggle to keep their sacred literary cause alive, the plans of the Dante Club are put in further jeopardy whenever a serial killer unleashes his terror on the city. Only the scholars recognize that the gruesome murders are modeled on the descriptions from Dante's Inferno and its account of Hell's torturous punishments. Together with the lives of the Boston elite and Dante's literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and outcast police officer Nicolas Rey, the first black person in the Boston police department, place their careers on the line in their efforts to end the killing spree. Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer than they ever would have imagined.
The Dante Club is an impressive mixture of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante, his mythic genius, and his continued grip on the imagination.
