A story of love and grief. I became a widower and a father on the same day says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dantes The Divine Comedy helped him to endure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love.

On a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi, a Dante professor, found himself racing to hospital his wife, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident. In one terrible instant, Luzzi became both a widower and a first-time father. Adrift and grieving, Luzzi found himself sharing Dantes dark wood with an intimacy that years of reading had never shown him: the words became a wise companion through the Inferno of his grief, his healing, and ultimately his rediscovered love.