Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio

✍ Scribed by Oldcorn, Anthony; Ross, Charles; Mandelbaum, Allen; Dante Alighieri

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 430
• Series: Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.; California lectura Dantis 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volume Lectura Dantis, contains expert, focused commentary on the Purgatorio by thirty-three international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic. The cast of characters is as colorful as before, although this time most of them are headed for salvation. The canto-by-canto commentary allows each contributor his or her individual voice and results in a deeper, richer awareness of Dante's timeless aspirations and achievements.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Ritual and Story / Ezio Raimondi --
The New Song and The Old / Robert Hollander --
The Sheepfold of the Excommunicates / Robin Kirkpatrick --
The Lute Maker / Belacqua Enzo Quaglio --
The Keys to Purgatory / Aldo Scaglione --
"Ah, Abject Italy" : A Bitter Digression / Maria Picchio Simonelli --
Sordello and the Catalog of Princes / Maurizio Perugi --
In the Valley of the Rulers / Ricardo J. Quinones --
The Ritual Keys / Charles Ross --
The Art of God / Hermann Gmelin --
Gone with the Wind / Anthony Oldcorn --
Eyes Down : Dante Among the Humble / Janos Kelemen --
Among the Envious : Seeing and not Seeing / Albert Wingell --
The Rhetoric of Envy / Massimo Verdicchio --
Virtual Reality / Arielle Saiber --
A World of Darkness and Disorder / John Scott --
On Revenge / Jo Ann Cavallo --
Love, Free Will, and Sloth : the Fourth Terrace / Marilyn Migiel --
Vectors of Human Love / Sara Sturm-Maddox --
Hugh Capet and the Avarice of Kings / Vincent Moleta --
Greeting Statius : the Poetry of a Soul's Liberation / Janet Levarie Smarr --
To the Sixth Terrace : Virgil and Statius Discourse / Christopher Kleinhenz --
Reading Literary and Ethical Choices / Rinaldina Russell --
Of Poetry and Politics / Lino Pertile --
Statius's Discourse : a Marvelous Connection of Things / Ronald Martinez --
The Fires of Lust and Poetry / Prue Shaw --
At the Threshold of Freedom / Glauco Cambon --
Watching Matilda / Victoria Kirkham --
Dante's Processional Vision / Peter Armour --
At the Summit of Purgatory / Rachel Jacoff --
Dante's Repentance / Emilio Pasquini --
The Parallel Histories / H. Wayne Storey --
Beatrice's Prophecy, Matilda's Name, and the Pilgrim's Renewal / Dino S. Cervigni.

✦ Subjects

Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321. -- Purgatorio. POETRY -- Continental European. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General. Purgatorio (Dante Alighieri)