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Dante

ISBN: 978-0-631-22852-3
Hardcover
320 pages
August 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Plates and Diagrams.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: How to Use This Book.

Abbreviations.

Chronology of Significant Events, c.1200–1321.

Map: Dante’s Italy, c.1300.

Landmarks of a Life.

From the Baptistery to the Ponte Vecchio.

Learning in Florence.

From Florence to San Godenzo.

Landscapes of Exile.

Texts and Traditions.

Books, Authors, Libraries, Media.

Pagan Culture.

The Bible.

Faith Seeking Understanding: Christian Traditions of Thought before Dante.

Saints, Contemplatives, Visionaries.

History, Politics, Science.

The Mother Tongue and the New Style.

Reading Dante.

Seeking Guidance.

Writing the City.

Confronting the Church.

Imagining Sin and Sainthood.

Understanding Love.

The Shadow of the Argo: Travel, Poetics, Language.

Postscript: Dante’s Readers.

Chronology of Significant Events in Dante’s Afterlife, 1322–2006.

Commentary, Criticism, Canonization.

Picturing and Performing the Commedia.

Controversy, Conflict, Crime.

Purgatorio: Poetics and Politics.

A Conversation about the Paradiso.

Glossary of Literary Terms.

Works Cited.

Electronic Resources.

Index

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