Note on Editions and Translations

Preface

Part I. Social and Cultural Difference

1. "Only Historicize": History, Material Culture (Food, Clothes, Books), and the Future of Dante Studies

2. Dante's Sympathy for the Other, or the Non-Stereotyping Imagination: Sexual and Racialized Others in the Commedia

3. Contemporaries Who Found Heterodoxy in Dante: Cecco d'Ascoli, Boccaccio, and Benvenuto da Imola on Fortuna and Inferno 7.89

4. Dante's Limbo and Equity of Access: Non-Christians, Children, and Criteria of Inclusion and Exclusion, from Inferno 4 to Paradiso 32

Part II. Metaphysical Difference

5. Toward a Dantean Theology of Eros: From Dante's Lyrics to the Paradiso

6. Amicus eius: Dante and the Semantics of Friendship

7. Paradiso and the Mimesis of Ideas: Realism versus Reality

8. Dante Squares the Circle: Textual and Philosophical Affinities of Monarchia and Paradiso (Solutio Distinctiva in Mon. 3.4.17 and Par. 4.94-114)

9. Difference as Punishment or Difference as Pleasure: From the Tower of Babel in De vulgari eloquentia to the Death of Babel in Paradiso 26

Part III. Aristotelian Disruptions 1: Wealth and Society

10. Aristotle's Mezzo, Courtly Misura, and Dante's Canzone Le dolci rime: Humanism, Ethics, and Social Anxiety

11. Dante and Wealth, Between Aristotle and Cortesia: From the Moral Canzoni Le dolci rime and Poscia ch'Amor through Convivio to Inferno 6 and 7

Part IV. Aristotelian Disruptions 2: Love and Compulsion

12. Archeology of the Donna Gentile: The Importance of Disconversion in Conversion Narratives

13. Dante and Cecco d'Ascoli on Love and Compulsion: The Epistle to Cino, Io sono stato, the Third Heaven

14. Voi che 'ntendendo il terzo ciel movete, A Dramatization of "utrum de passione in passionem possit anima transformari": Conflict, Compulsion, Consent, Conversion

Part V. Critical Philology and Italian Cultural History

15. The Case of the Lost Original Ending of Dante's Vita Nuova: More Notes Toward a Critical Philology

16. Critical Philology and Dante's Rime

Teodolinda Barolini is the Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University and author of a number of books, including The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante and Dante's Poets: Textuality and Truth in the "Comedy."