In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments in Florence, to place Dantes literary career in its rich context. Dante and His Circle discusses the encyclopaedic multicultural education in classical literature, law, ethics, rhetoric, diplomacy, poetry, music and cosmology Brunetto Latino gave to Guido Cavalcante, Dante Alighieri and Francesco da Barberino. Bolton Holloway traces Latino use of Arabic methods he had learned at the Court of Alfonso X el Sabio in Spain in 1260. Next Latino dictates his Rettorica, Tesoretto and Tesoro in Italian to his students, following the Sicilian Vespers, the manuscripts of their circle later coming to be re-edited, illustrated and published by Dantes fellow student, Francesco da Barberino, who survived them all and who likewise copied Alfonsine methods for producing the Danti del Cento manuscripts of the Commedia. The book ends by discussing Dantes Decolonialism. Each chapter provides Study Questions for further research.