Dante

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Preface: In fondo, una serietà terribile
PART  I Preliminary Considerations
	Chapter 1 Historical Considerations
		◆ Florence between the Guelphs and Ghibellines (1215–79)
		◆ Florence between the Blacks and the Whites (1279–1302)
		◆ The Descent and Demise of Henry VII (1302–13)
	Chapter 2 Biographical Considerations
		◆ Susceptibility and the Significant Encounter (1265–93)
		◆ Care, Conflict and Catastrophe (1293–1302)
		◆ Far-Wandering and the Agony of Exile (1302–21)
PART  II The Early Years: From Dante da Maiano to the Vita nova
	Chapter 1 Preliminary Remarks: Love and Love-Intelligence
	Chapter 2 Literary Hinterland: From Provençal to the stilo de la loda
	Chapter 3 Literary Apprenticeship and a Coming of Age
		◆ Dante guittoniano
		◆ Dante cavalcantiano
		◆ Dante and the Rose: The Fiore and the Detto d’amore
		◆ Dante guinizzelliano
	Chapter 4 The Vita nova
		◆ Preliminary Remarks: Antecedent Utterance and an Essay in Authoring
		◆ Love Seeking and Seeking Not Its Own
		◆ Conclusion: New Life and a Commedia a minore
PART  III The Middle Years: The Moral and Allegorical Rime, the Convivio, the De vulgari eloquentia and the Post-Exilic Rime
	Chapter 1 Compassionate Lady of the Casement and a Woman of Stone: The Pre-Exilic Rime
	Chapter 2 The Convivio
		◆ Preliminary Remarks: Magnanimity, Possibility and Impossibility
		◆ Course of the Argument
		◆ Axes of Concern in the Convivio
		◆ Language, Form and Function: An Essay in Beauty, Being and Becoming
		◆ Conclusion: Being and Becoming as Yet in Waiting
	Chapter 3 The De vulgari eloquentia: Language, Literature and the Ontologization of Art
	Chapter 4 The Post-Exilic Rime
PART IV The Final Years: The Commedia, the Political Letters and the Monarchia, the Questio, Cangrande and the Eclogues
	Chapter 1 The Commedia
		◆ Standing Alone in Respect of That Which Matters Alone: Dante, Cino and the Solitary Way
		◆ The Commedia à la lettre
		◆ An Anthropology and Ethic: Love and Love-Harvesting
		◆ The Dialectics of Being: A Difficult Dimensionality
		◆ A Phenomenology of Existence: The Mood as Mediator
		◆ Dante and Significant Journeying
		◆ Immanent Eschatology and the Triumph of the Image
	Chapter 2 The Monarchia and the Political Letters
	Chapter 3 The Questio de situ aque et terre, the Letter to Cangrande della Scala and the Eclogues
Afterword: A Coruscation of Delight
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Index of Names