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Table of Contents:
  • Dante's new life: Vita Nova
  • Language and the craft of literature: de vulgari eloquentia
  • Dante's lyric poetry: Rime
  • Dante's banquet of knowledge: Convivio
  • Dante's vision of world empire and peace: Monarchia
  • The Comedy, prolegomena: The prologue scene (Inferno I-2)
  • Dante's other world: Moral order
  • Dante's other world: Topography and demography
  • Dante and classical antiquity
  • The poet of the Comedy
  • The Comedy and the Bible
  • Dante and his contemporary world
  • Dante's Latin epistles, Questio de aqua et terra, and eclogues.