Nick Havely is Emeritus Professor at the University of York, where he taught courses on English and Italian literature for forty years. In 1977-8 he was Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of English at Cornell University, and from 1989 he collaborated with the University of Bologna on one of the earliest ERASMUS exchanges and research networks. He was awarded research fellowships by the Leverhulme Trust (2005) and the Fondazione Bogliasco (2014). In 2012 he was elected a member of the Oxford Dante Society; he recently became an Honorary Member of the Dante Society of America.

• Acknowledgements List of Maps and Illustrations Introduction 1: Sansepolcro to La Verna 2: The Springs of the Arno 3: The Passes to Florence: Il Giogo 4: The Passes to Florence: La Futa 5: Alto Appennino 6: Garfagnana 7: Lunigiana Epilogue 1: Memorials in Liguria Epilogue 2: Mountains from Bologna Endnotes References Index

This book is a model of how to produce cultural history because it deals with convergences instead of mere trains of events, similarities along with differences, lines of intersection rather than those of demarcation; but it is also an example of how a critic with an academic background can become a writer without renouncing that background or being confined by it ...

Nick Havely is Emeritus Professor at the University of York, where he taught courses on English and Italian literature for forty years. In 1977-8 he was Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of English at Cornell University, and from 1989 he collaborated with the University of Bologna on one of the earliest ERASMUS exchanges and research networks. He was awarded research fellowships by the Leverhulme Trust (2005) and the Fondazione Bogliasco (2014). In 2012 he was elected a member of the Oxford Dante Society; he recently became an Honorary Member of the Dante Society of America.

• Acknowledgements List of Maps and Illustrations Introduction 1: Sansepolcro to La Verna 2: The Springs of the Arno 3: The Passes to Florence: Il Giogo 4: The Passes to Florence: La Futa 5: Alto Appennino 6: Garfagnana 7: Lunigiana Epilogue 1: Memorials in Liguria Epilogue 2: Mountains from Bologna Endnotes References Index

This book is a model of how to produce cultural history because it deals with convergences instead of mere trains of events, similarities along with differences, lines of intersection rather than those of demarcation; but it is also an example of how a critic with an academic background can become a writer without renouncing that background or being confined by it ...

Nick Havely is Emeritus Professor at the University of York, where he taught courses on English and Italian literature for forty years. In 1977-8 he was Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of English at Cornell University, and from 1989 he collaborated with the University of Bologna on one of the earliest ERASMUS exchanges and research networks. He was awarded research fellowships by the Leverhulme Trust (2005) and the Fondazione Bogliasco (2014). In 2012 he was elected a member of the Oxford Dante Society; he recently became an Honorary Member of the Dante Society of America.

• Acknowledgements List of Maps and Illustrations Introduction 1: Sansepolcro to La Verna 2: The Springs of the Arno 3: The Passes to Florence: Il Giogo 4: The Passes to Florence: La Futa 5: Alto Appennino 6: Garfagnana 7: Lunigiana Epilogue 1: Memorials in Liguria Epilogue 2: Mountains from Bologna Endnotes References Index

This book is a model of how to produce cultural history because it deals with convergences instead of mere trains of events, similarities along with differences, lines of intersection rather than those of demarcation; but it is also an example of how a critic with an academic background can become a writer without renouncing that background or being confined by it ...