Table of Contents:
  • Dante and medieval poetics / Zygmunt G. Barański
  • Palinode and history in the oeuvre of Dante / Albert Russell Ascoli
  • Dante and the classics / Michel Angelo Piccone
  • Dante and the Bible : Biblical citation in the Divine comedy / Christopher Kleinhenz
  • Forbidden love : metaphor and history (Inferno 5) / Amilcare A. Iannucci
  • Dante's Ulysses : narrative and transgression / Teodolinda Barolini
  • Narrative design in Dante's earthly paradise / Richard Lansing
  • A desire of paradise and a paradise of desire : Dante and mysticism / Lino Pertile
  • Dante and the authority of poetic language / Steven Botterill
  • Dante and politics / Joan M. Ferrante
  • Dante and androgyny / Carolynn Lund-Mead
  • Singing the book : orality in the reception of Dante's Comedy / John Ahern
  • Interpreting the commentary tradition to the Comedy / Deborah Parker
  • Reader's application and the moment of truth in Dante's Divine comedy / William Franke.