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The Man Who Made Hell: The Life of Dante is historical fiction grounded in the documented events of Dante Alighieri's life, his writings, and the historical record of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy.

The novel follows Dante from Florence through exile in Ravenna as he carries the vow made after Beatrice's death and completes the work that will make Hell visible—giving it shape, order, and names, and giving shape to what comes after. It is the record of what one mind, stripped of every certainty except the desire to see clearly, was able to make of loss, exile, and the refusal to lie.