Lectura Dantis - Purgatorio

Canto I Ritual and Story EZIO RAIMONDI 1 Canto II The New Song and the Old ROBERT HOLLANDER 11 Canto III The Sheepfold of the Excommunicates ROBIN KIRKPATRICK 21 Canto IV The Lute Maker ENZO QUAGLIO 39 Canto V The Keys to Purgatory ALDO SCAGLIONE 47 Canto VI Abject Italy MARIA PICCHIO SIMONELLI 56 Canto VII Sordello and the Catalog of Princes MAURIZIO PERUGI 65 Canto VIII In the Valley of the Rulers RICARDO J. QUINONES 73 Canto IX The Ritual Keys CHARLES ROSS 85 Canto X The Art of God HERMANN GMELIN 95 Canto XI Gone with the Wind ANTHONY OLDCORN 103 Canto XII Eyes Down JANOS KELEMEN 119 Canto XIII Among the Envious ALBERT WINGELL 129 Canto XIV The Rhetoric of Envy MASSIMO VERDICCHIO 141 Canto XV Virtual Reality ARIELLE SAIBER 151 Canto XVI A World of Darkness and Disorder JOHN SCOTT 167 Canto XVII On Revenge JO ANN CAVALLO 178 Canto XVIII Love, Free Will, and Sloth MARILYN MIGIEL 191 Canto XIX Vectors of Human Love SARA STURM-MADDOX 200 Canto XX Hugh Capet and the Avarice of Kings VINCENT MOLETA 210 Canto XXI Greeting Statius JANET LEVARIE SMARR 222 Canto XXII Virgil and Statius Discourse CHRISTOPHER KLEINHENZ 236 Canto XXIII Reading Literary and Ethical Choices RINALDINA RUSSELL 252 Canto XXIV Of Poetry and Politics LINO PERTILE 262 Canto XXV Statius's Marvelous Connection of Things RONALD MARTINEZ 277 Canto XXVI The Fires of Lust and Poetry PRUE SHAW 288 Canto XXVII At the Threshold of Freedom GLAUCO CAMBON 303 Canto XVIII Watching Matilda VICTORIA KIRKHAM 311 Canto XXIX Dante's Processional Vision PETER ARMOUR 329 Canto XXX At the Summit of Purgatory RACHEL JACOFF 341 Canto XXXI Dante's Repentance EMILIO PASQUINI 353 Canto XXXII The Parallel Histories H. WAYNE STOREY 360 Canto XXXIII Beatrice's Prophecy, Matilda's Name, and the Pilgrim's Renewal DINO S. CERVIGNI 378 Contributors 391 Index 399