Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Famous Orpheus 1
5. The Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid 25
6. The Songs of Orpheus and the New Song of Christ 51
7. Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Christians 63
8. Orpheus and Ficino 85
9. The Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art, 1400-1600 111
10. Orfeo and Euridice, the First Two Operas 163
11. Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El divino Orfeo c 1634 183
12. The Triumph of Art, the Triumph of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton 207
13. Suggested Reading 231
14. Index 233