Lectura Dantis, Purgatorio: Purgatorio

✍ Scribed by Allen Mandelbaum (editor); Anthony Oldcorn (editor); Charles Ross (editor)

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 426
• 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

CONTENTS
Canto I. Ritual and Story
Canto II. The New Song and the Old
Canto III. The Sheepfold of the Excommunicates
Canto IV. The Lute Maker
Canto V. The Keys to Purgatory
Canto VI. Abject Italy
Canto VII. Sordello and the Catalog of Princes
Canto VIII. In the Valley of the Rulers
Canto IX. The Ritual Keys
Canto X. The Art of God
Canto XI. Gone with the Wind
Canto XII. Eyes Down
Canto XIII. Among the Envious
Canto XIV. The Rhetoric of Envy
Canto XV. Virtual Reality
Canto XVI. A World of Darkness and Disorder
Canto XVII. On Revenge
Canto XVIII. Love, Free Will, and Sloth
Canto XIX. Vectors of Human Love
Canto XX. Hugh Capet and the Avarice of Kings
Canto XXI. Greeting Statius
Canto XXII. Virgil and Statius Discourse
Canto XXIII. Reading Literary and Ethical Choices
Canto XXIV. Of Poetry and Politics
Canto XXV. Statius’s Marvelous Connection of Things
Canto XXVI. The Fires of Lust and Poetry
Canto XXVII. At the Threshold of Freedom
Canto XXVIII. Watching Matilda
Canto XXIX. Dante’s Processional Vision
Canto XXX. At the Summit of Purgatory
Canto XXXI. Dante’s Repentance
Canto XXXII. The Parallel Histories
Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s Prophecy, Matilda’s Name, and the Pilgrim’s Renewal
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