Lectura Dantis Purgatorio [Paperback]

This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volumeLectura Dantis,contains expert, focused commentary on thePurgatorioby 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.

Allen Mandelbaumis W.R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University and a National Book Award winner. He is the translator of the UC Press facing-text editions of DantesDivine Comedy(in three volumes:Inferno, Purgatorio,andParadiso), as well as the UC Press editions of the verse translations ofThe Odyssey of HomerandThe Aeneidof Virgil.Anthony Oldcornis Chair of Italian at Brown University.Charles Rossis Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University.

I. Ritual and Story, EZIO RAIMONDI
II. The New Song and the Old, ROBERT HOLLANDER
III. The Sheepfold of the Excommunicates, ROBIN KIRKPATRICK
IV. The Lute Maker: Belacqua ENZO QUAGLIO
V. The Keys to Purgatory, ALDO SCAGLIONE
VI. Ah, Abject Italy : A Bitter Digression, MARIA PICCHIO SIMONELLI
VII. Sordello and the Catalog of Princes, MAURIZIO PERUGI
VIII. In the Valley of the Rulers, RICARDO J. QUINONES
IX. The Ritual Keys, CHARLES ROSS
X. The Art of God, HERMANN GMELIN
XI. Gone with the Wind, ANTHONY OLDCORN
XII. Eyes Down: Dante among the Humble, J?NOS KELEMEN
XIII. Among the Envious: Seeing and Not Seeing, ALBERT WINGELL
XIV. The Rhetoric of Envy, MASSIMO VERDICCHIO
XV. Virtual Reality, ARIELLE SAIBER
XVI. A World of Darkness andlc™