Dante's political Purgatory /

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Author / Creator:Scott, John A. (John Alfred), 1932-
Imprint:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1996.
Description:xi, 295 p.
Language:English
Series:Middle Ages series
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2436798
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ISBN:0812233468 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Part 1. Dante's Politics
  • 1. Dante's Political Experience (1265-1302)
  • 2. Dante's Political Experience: Exile and Conversion (1302-1305)
  • 3. Exul Inmeritus (1305-1321)
  • Part 2. Dante's Purgatorio
  • 4. Cato: a Pagan Suicide in Purgatory
  • 5. Manfred and Bonconte
  • 6. The Sordello Episode (purgatorio VI-VIII)
  • 7. The Dream and the Entrance to Purgatory (purgatorio IX-X)
  • 8. The Poem's Center (purgatorio XII-XVIII)
  • 9. The She-Wolf and the Shepherds (purgatorio XIX-XX)
  • 10. The Apocalypse (purgatorio XXIX-XXXIII)
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index