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Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust, Hardcover by Rushworth, Jennifer, ISBN 0198790872, ISBN-13 9780198790877, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book brings together three authors who have written movingly about mourning: Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, and Marcel Proust. Jennifer Rushworth explores how each of them, through their respective narratives of bereavement, grapples with the challenge of how to write adequately about the deeply personal and painful experience of grief.