Contents
- Introduction
- Translator’s Note
- The Plan of Dante’s Hell
- Map of Italy
- The Text of Inferno
- Backgrounds and Contexts
- DANTE IN HIS OWN VOICE
- From New Life • [Poem: Love and the gracious heart]
- From Of the Vernacular Language • [The Tower of Babel]
- From Banquet • [On knowledge, literature, government]
- From On World-Government • [On nobility and government]
- SOURCES AND INFLUENCES
- Virgil • From the Aeneid
- Augustine • From The Confessions
- Guido Guinizelli • “Love returns always to a noble heart”
- Guido Cavalcanti • “A lady bids me”
- Boniface VIII • “The Holy One”
- Criticism
- John Freccero • Dante’s Prologue Scene
- Renato Poggioli • Tragedy or Romance? A Reading of the Paolo and Francesca Episode in Dante’s Inferno
- Giuseppe Mazzotta • A Pattern of Order: Inferno VII and Paradiso VII
- John Freccero • Medusa: The Letter and the Spirit
- Robert M. Durling • Canto X: Farinata and Cavalcante
- Marc Cogan • Part II: The Poetic Application of the Structure of Hell
- Leo Spitzer • Speech and Language in Inferno XIII
- Alison Cornish • The Harvest of Reading: Inferno 20, 24, 26
- Peter S. Hawkins • Descendit ad inferos
- Teodolinda Barolini • Transition: How Cantos Begin and End
- Giuseppe Mazzotta • Canto XXVI Ulysses: Persuasion versus Prophecy
- Robert Hollander • Inferno XXXIII, 37-74: Ugolino’s Importunity
- Dante Alighieri: A Chronology
- Selected Bibliography
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