Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. A Note on Texts and Translations ix
5. Introduction “Of Making Many Books . . .” 1
6. 1. Sacra Pagina 23
7. 2. Dante’s Divisions: Structures of Authority in the Vita Nuova 44
8. 3. Dante’s Divisions: The History of Division 73
9. 4. The Form of Filostrato 118
10. 5. The Form of Troilus: Boccaccio, Chaucer, and the Picture of History 132
11. 6. Sailing to Charybdis: The Second Canticus Troili and the Contexts of Chaucer’s Troilus 165
12. Afterword. Looking Back 207
13. Notes 217
14. Bibliography 265
15. Index 281
16. Backmatter 289