CONTENTS

Abbreviations

Introduction

INFERNO

CANTO 1

Notes to Canto 1

CANTO 2

Notes to Canto 2

CANTO 3

Notes to Canto 3

CANTO 4

Notes to Canto 4

CANTO 5

Notes to Canto 5

CANTO 6

Notes to Canto 6

CANTO 7

Notes to Canto 7

CANTO 8

Notes to Canto 8

CANTO 9

Notes to Canto 9

CANTO 10

Notes to Canto 10

CANTO 11

Notes to Canto 11

CANTO 12

Notes to Canto 12

CANTO 13

Notes to Canto 13

CANTO 14

Notes to Canto 14

CANTO 15

Notes to Canto 15

CANTO 16

Notes to Canto 16

CANTO 17

Notes to Canto 17

CANTO 18

Notes to Canto 18

CANTO 19

Notes to Canto 19

CANTO 20

Notes to Canto 20

CANTO 21

Notes to Canto 21

CANTO 22

Notes to Canto 22

CANTO 23

Notes to Canto 23

CANTO 24

Notes to Canto 24

CANTO 25

Notes to Canto 25

CANTO 26

Notes to Canto 26

CANTO 27

Notes to Canto 27

CANTO 28

Notes to Canto 28

CANTO 29

Notes to Canto 29

CANTO 30

Notes to Canto 30

CANTO 31

Notes to Canto 31

CANTO 32

Notes to Canto 32

CANTO 33

Notes to Canto 33

CANTO 34

Notes to Canto 34

INFERNO

CANTO 1

CANTO 2

CANTO 3

CANTO 4

CANTO 5

CANTO 6

CANTO 7

CANTO 8

CANTO 9

CANTO 10

CANTO 11

CANTO 12

CANTO 13

CANTO 14

CANTO 15

CANTO 16

CANTO 17

CANTO 18

CANTO 19

CANTO 20

CANTO 21

CANTO 22

CANTO 23

CANTO 24

CANTO 25

CANTO 26

CANTO 27

CANTO 28

CANTO 29

CANTO 30

CANTO 31

CANTO 32

CANTO 33

CANTO 34

ADDITIONAL NOTES

1. Autobiography in the Divine Comedy (After Canto 2)

2. The Body Analogy, 1 (After Canto 11)

3. The Old Man of Crete (Canto 14)

4. Dante and Brunetto Latini (Canto 15)

5. Dante and Homosexuality (Canto 16)

6. Geryon’s Spiral Flight (Canto 17)

7. Boniface’s Church (Canto 19)

8. Dante and the Classical Soothsayers (After Canto 20)

9. Autobiography in Cantos 21—23

10. Time and the Thief (Cantos 24–25)

11. Ulysses’ Last Voyage (Canto 26)

12. The Poetry of Schism (Canto 28)

13. The Body Analogy, 2: The Metaphorics of Fraud (After Canto 30)

14. Dante’s Political Giants (Canto 31)

15. Ugolino (Cantos 32–33)

16. Christ in Hell (After Canto 34)

Textual Variants

Bibliography

Index of Italian, Latin, and Other Words Discussed in the Notes

Index of Passages Cited in the Notes

Index of Proper Names in the Notes

Index of Proper Names in the Text and Translation

MAPS

Italy, ca. 1300

Romagna and Tuscany, ca. 1300

The Celestial Sphere and the Zodiac

The Structure of Dante’s Hell

FIGURES

1. Fortune and her wheel (Canto 7)

2. The Resurrection of the dead (Canto 10)

3. The baptismal font in the Pisa Baptistery (Canto 19)

4. A medieval devil (Canto 21)

5. A fist making the “fig” (Canto 25)

6. A lute, face down (Canto 30)

7. The walls of Montereggione (Canto 31)

8. The relative positions of Gibraltar, Jerusalem, the Ganges, and Purgatory (Canto 34)