Introduction by Rachel Jacoff

1. The Prologue Scene

2. The Firm Foot on a Journey Without a Guide

3. The River of Death: Inferno II, 108

4. Pilgrim in a Gyre

5. Infernal Irony: The Gates of Hell

6. The Neutral Angels

7. Medusa: The Letter and the Spirit

8. Dante's Ulysses: From Epic to Novel

9. Bestial Sign and Bread of Angels: Inferno XXXII and XXXIII

10. The Sign of Satan

11. Infernal Inversion and Christian Conversion: Inferno XXXIV

12. Casella's Song: Purgatorio II, 12

13. Manfred's Wounds and the Poetics of the Purgatorio

14. An Introduction to the Paradiso

15. The Dance of the Stars: Paradiso X

16. The Final Image: Paradiso XXXIII, 144

17. The Significance of Terza Rima

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