The Poetry of Dante's Paradiso: Lives Almost Divine, Spirits that Matter

Preface and a Note on the Text
Abbreviations and References
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Reading Paradiso Out of Time
	Paradiso: The Cosmos
	Writing Paradiso
	Mary and Beatrice
	Angels, Immateriality, and Prime Matter
	Allegory
	Origin, Dissemination, and Hierarchy
	Lives Almost Divine, Spirits That Matter
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Within the Shadow of the Earth
	Paradiso 1: Light, Apollo, the Sun, the Zodiac
	Dante’s Astronomy: The Moon
	The Moon
		Canto 3: Piccarda and Costanza: Florence and the Empire
		Canto 4: On the Will
		Cantos 4 and 5: Vows and Free Will
	Mercury
		Canto 6: Justinian
		Canto 6: The Eagle
		Dante, Lucan, and Caesar
		The Empire
		Canto 6: Guelfs and Ghibellines
		Canto 7
	Venus
		Fin’Amors
		Double Joy in Paradise
		Canto 9: Massacres
		Canto 9: Folco
		The Turn in Paradiso
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Dancing in the Sun: Paradiso—Cantos 10–14
	Paradiso 10: Dante and Time
	The Spirits in the Sun
	The First Circle
	The Second Circle
	The Twenty-Four Spirits
		Paradisal Lives: Francis of Assisi
		Paradisal Lives: Dominic
	Canto 12: Dante and Spain
	Canto 12: Dominic
	Canto 12: Joachim—Prophecy and History
	Canto 13. 1–27
		Paradisal Lives: Solomon
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn: History and Its Reversals
	The Golden Age Returning
	The Old Man of Crete
	Mars
		The Statue of Mars
		Mars the Protector
		Canto 16: Florence: Decline and Fall
		Cantos 17 and 18: Exile
	Jupiter
		Pestilential Rulers
		Canto 20: Paradisal Lives
		Apokatastasis
	Saturn
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Fixed Stars, Diasporic Times: Paradiso 22–27
	Canto 22: 106–154
	Canto 23: Mary
	Canto 24: Peter
	Canto 25: James
	Canto 26: John
	Canto 26: Adam
	Canto 27: Prophetic Time
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: Angels: Paradiso 28 and 29
	From the Convivio to the Paradiso
	Canto 28: The Reversed Image
		The Celestial Hierarchy
	Canto 29: Angels and Creation
		Paradiso and Creation—Canto 7
		Canto 13: 52–81
		Canto 29. 22–36: Prime Matter
		God as the One
		The Rebellious Angels
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: The Ultimate Vision: Paradiso 30–33
	The Empyrean
	The Second Vision
	Bernard
	Canto 32
	Canto 33
	Canto 33: The Sybil
	Reading the Book
	The Vision
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Index