Dante.

Intro -- Contents -- 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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