Dante Alighieri

Contents......Page 6
Editor’s Note......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
The Two Kinds of Allegory......Page 20
Figural Art in the Middle Ages......Page 34
Epic Tradition and Inferno IX......Page 46
Manfred’s Wounds and the Poetics of the ‘Purgatorio’......Page 54
Autocitation and Autobiography......Page 66
Infernal Metamorphoses: An Interpretation of Dante’s “Counterpass”......Page 128
The Light of Venus and the Poetry of Dante: “Vita Nuova” and “Inferno” XXVII......Page 154
The Otherworldly World of the Paradiso......Page 170
Synchronicity......Page 186
Purgatory as Paradigm: Traveling the New and Never-Before-Traveled Path of This Life/Poem......Page 202
Imagination and Knowledge (Purgatorio XVII–XVIII)......Page 234
The Strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice......Page 256
Finding the Center......Page 278
Dante’s Interpretive Journey: Truth Through Interpretation......Page 296
Chronology......Page 316
Contributors......Page 318
Bibliography......Page 320
Acknowledgments......Page 326
Index......Page 328