Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Canto I. Ritual and Story 1
4. Canto II. The New Song and the Old 11
5. Canto III. The Sheepfold of the Excommunicates 21
6. Canto IV. The Lute Maker 39
7. Canto V. The Keys to Purgatory 47
8. Canto VI. Abject Italy 56
9. Canto VII. Sordello and the Catalog of Princes 65
10. Canto VIII. In the Valley of the Rulers 73
11. Canto IX. The Ritual Keys 85
12. Canto X. The Art of God 95
13. Canto XI. Gone with the Wind 103
14. Canto XII. Eyes Down 119
15. Canto XIII. Among the Envious 129
16. Canto XIV. The Rhetoric of Envy 141
17. Canto XV. Virtual Reality 151
18. Canto XVI. A World of Darkness and Disorder 167
19. Canto XVII. On Revenge 178
20. Canto XVIII. Love, Free Will, and Sloth 191
21. Canto XIX. Vectors of Human Love 200
22. Canto XX. Hugh Capet and the Avarice of Kings 210
23. Canto XXI. Greeting Statius 222
24. Canto XXII. Virgil and Statius Discourse 236
25. Canto XXIII. Reading Literary and Ethical Choices 252
26. Canto XXIV. Of Poetry and Politics 262
27. Canto XXV. Statius’s Marvelous Connection of Things 277
28. Canto XXVI. The Fires of Lust and Poetry 288
29. Canto XXVII. At the Threshold of Freedom 303
30. Canto XXVIII. Watching Matilda 311
31. Canto XXIX. Dante’s Processional Vision 329
32. Canto XXX. At the Summit of Purgatory 341
33. Canto XXXI. Dante’s Repentance 353
34. Canto XXXII. The Parallel Histories 360
35. Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s Prophecy, Matilda’s Name, and the Pilgrim’s Renewal 378
36. CONTRIBUTORS 391
37. INDEX 399