Table of contents
Editor's Note
Introduction
Harold Bloom
Two Kinds of Allegory
Charles S. Singleton
Figural Art in the Middle Ages
Erich Auerbach
Epic Tradition and Inferno IX
David Quint
Manfred's Wounds and the Poetics of the Purgatorio
John Freccero
Autocitation and Autobiography
Teodolinda Barolini
Infernal Metamorphoses: An Interpretation of Dante's ?Counterpass?
Kenneth Gross
The Light of Venus and the Poetry of Dante: Vita Nuova and Inferno XXVII
Giuseppe Mazzotta
The Otherworldly World of the Paradiso
Jaroslav Pelikan
Writing in Dante?s Cult of Truth from Borges to Boccaccio: Synchronicity
María Rosa Menocal
Purgatory as Paradigm: Traveling the New and Never-Before-Traveled Path of this Life/Poem
Teodolinda Barolini
Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge: Imagination and Knowledge in Puragatorio XVII-XVIII
Giuseppe Mazzotta
The Strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice
Harold Bloom
Mismapping the Underworld: Daring and Error in Dante?s ?Comedy?
John Kleiner
Dante's Interpretive Journey: Truth Through Interpretation and the Hermeneutic of Faith
William Franke
Chronology
Contributors
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
An allegory composed of three parts, the "Inferno, Purgatorio, and "Paradiso, Dante's "The Divine Comedy remains one of the greatest works in classic literature