Lectura Dantis : Inferno / edited by Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Ross.

Contributor Mandelbaum, Allen, 1926-2011.

Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.

Descriptionxii, 461 p. ; 25 cm.

Note:Dante in his age / Allen Mandelbaum. - The hard begin / Letterio Cassata. - Dante's authority / Robert Hollander. - The gate of hell / Eugenio N. Frongia. - A melancholy elysium / Manlio Pastore Stocchi. - The fierce dove / Paolo Valesio. - Florence, Ciacco, and the gluttons / Maria Picchio Simonelli. - The weal of fortune / Philip R. erk. - Fifth circle: wrathful and sullen / Caron Ann Cioffi. - The harrowing of Dante from upper hell / Amilcare A. Iannucci. - Farinata and Cavalcante / Robert M. Durling. - Malice and mad bestiality / Alfred A. Triolo. - The violent against their neighbors / Vittorio Russo. - The violent against themselves / Giorgio Petrocchio. - Capaneus and the old man of Crete / John A. Scott. - The canto of Brunetto Latini / Dante Della Terza. - From other sodomites to fraud / Susan Noakes. - Geryon's downward flight: the usurers / Paolo Cherchi. - Introduction to malebolge / James Nohrnberg. - Simoniacs / Charles T. Davis. - True and false see-ers / Teodolinda Barolini. - Controversial comedy / Steve Ellis. - Poets as scoundrels / Giuliana Carugati. - The painted people / Tibor Wlassics. - Thieves and metamorphoses / Joan M. Ferrante. - The perverse image / Anthony Oldcorn. - Ulysses: persuasion versus prophecy / Giuseppe Mazzotta. - False counselors: Guido da Montefeltro / Jennifer Petrie. - Scandal and schism / Thomas Peterson. - Such outlandish wounds / Lino Pertile. - Dante among the falsifiers / Robert M. Durling. - The giants: majesty and terror / Massimo Mandolini Pesaresi. - Amphion and the poetics of retaliation / John Ahern. - Count Ugolino and others / Edoardo Sanguineti. - Lucifer / Remo Ceserani.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-448) and index.

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