Abbreviations
Preface
PART 1. DANTE'S POLITICS
Ch. 1. Dante's Political Experience (1265-1302)
Ch. 2. Dante's Political Experience: Exile and Conversion (1302-1305)
Ch. 3. Exul Inmeritus (1305-1321)
PART 2. DANTE'S PURGATORIO
Introduction to Part Two
Ch. 4. Cato: A Pagan Suicide in Purgatory
Ch. 5. Manfred and Bonconte
Ch. 6. The Sordello Episode (Purgatorio VI-VIII)
Ch. 7. The Dream and the Entrance to Purgatory (Purgatorio IX-X)
Ch. 8. The Poem's Center (Purgatorio XII-XVIII)
Ch. 9. The She-Wolf and the Shepherds (Purgatorio XIX-XX)
Ch. 10. The Apocalypse (Purgatorio XXIX-XXXIII)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index