Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Note on Texts and Translations xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I Virgil in Dante
8. Theological Semantics: Virgil's Pietas and Dante's Pietd 19
9. Dante's Harpies: "Trista annunzio di futuro danno" 37
10. From Ignorance to Knowledge: The Marvelous in Inferno 13 45
11. The Eternal Image of the Father 62
12. Dante's Misreadings of the Aeneid in Inferno 20 77
13. Virgil's Inferno 94
14. Dido, Beatrice, and the Signs of Ancient Love 113
15. Intertextualities in Arcadia: Purgatorio 30.49-51 131
16. "Sì pïa l'ombra d'Anchise si parse": Paradiso 15.25 145
17. Part II Ovid in Dante
18. Ovid, Arachne, and the Poetics of Paradise 159
19. Erysichthon and the Poetics of the Spirit 173
20. Watching Matelda 181
21. Pauline Vision and Ovidian Speech in Paradiso I 202
22. Dante's Ovidian Self-Correction in Paradiso 17 214
23. Ovid's Semele and Dante's Metamorphosis: Paradiso 21.-22 224
24. The Rape/Rapture of Europa: Paradiso 27 233
25. Notes 249
26. References 297
27. Index Locorum 313
28. Index of Names 325