Table des matières

Acknowledgements

Editions Followed and Abbreviations

• A. Dante
• A.1 Vernacular works
• A.2 Latin works
• B. English translations
• B.1 Vernacular works
• B.2 Latin works

Notes on the Contributors

George Corbett et Heather Webb

Introduction

Peter S. Hawkins

23. Our Bodies, Our Selves: Crucified, Famished, and Nourished

Janet Soskice

24. True Desire, True Being, and Truly Being a Poet

• Purgatorio xxiv
• Paradiso xxiv

George Ferzoco

25. Changes

• A Literal Synopsis of the Canto Twenty-Fives
• The Incipits of the Twenty-Fives
• Inferno xxv. 1–3: ‘-adro’
• Purgatorio xxv. 1–3: ‘-orpio’
• Paradiso xxv. 1–3: ‘-acro’
• Changes in the Twenty-Fives
• Dante and the Number Twenty-Five

Elena Lombardi

26. The Poetics of Trespassing

• Language
• Desire and Trespassing
• Ulysses-Adam-Dante

Ronald L. Martinez

27. Containers and Things Contained

Theodore J. Cachey Jr.

28. Cosmographic Cartography of the ‘Perfect’ Twenty-Eights

• A Cartographic Reading of Inferno xxviii
• Inventing the Map of Purgatory in Purgatorio xxviii
• Mapping the Cosmos in Paradiso xxviii

John Took

29. Truth, Untruth and the Moment of Indwelling

Piero Boitani

30. Brooks, Melting Snow, River of Light

Catherine Pickstock

31. Beauty and the Beast

• Inferno xxxi
• Purgatorio xxxi
• Paradiso xxxi

David F. Ford

32. Particular Surprises: Faces, Cries and Transfiguration

• Purgatorio xxxii: Transfiguration
• Inferno xxxii: Frozen Faces; Embraced and Eaten by Hatred
• Paradiso xxxii: Transfiguration in Abundance
• The Soundtrack: Cries, Song, Conversation, Prayer
• Grace and Surprise
• Cadenza: In the Fitzwilliam Museum…

Rowan Williams

33 and 34. Ice, Fire and Holy Water

• ‘Freezing Fires’ and Heavenly Motion
• Frozen Speech and Heavenly Inarticulacy
• The Movement of Love and the Fixity of Contemplation
• Conclusion

Bibliography

Index of Names