Dante′s Volume from Alpha to Omega

Christiana Purdy Moudarres is assistant professor of Italian studies at Yale University. She is a contributing editor of Table Talk: Perspectives on Food in Medieval Italian Literature and coeditor, with Andrea Moudarres, of New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance: Contributions to the History of European Intellectual Culture. Carol Chiodo is the inaugural librarian for collections and digital scholarship at Harvard University Library.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations, Editions, and TranslationsIntroduction - by Carol Chiodo and Christiana Purdy MoudarresPart One: TheologyDante’s Orthodoxy and the Authority of Knowledge- by Jennifer HelmCathedrals of Light: An Overview of Dante’s Commedia in the Shadow of Bonaventure’s Thought - by Filipa AfonsoThe Rain of Hope: Theology and Exile in Paradiso 25 - by Maria Clara Iglesias RondinaDreams of Prophets, Dreams of Poets - by Giulia CardilloBody-less Vision: An Examination of the Incarnational Theology of Paradiso 31–33 - by Junius JohnsonPart Two: PhilosophyDante’s Humanistic Ontology: Notes for a Reading of the Dialectic Hylomorphism of the Commedia - by Humberto BallesterosRemembering the Convivio: Dante and the Art of Memory - by Eleonora Buonocore“Eternal Hate Created Me As Well”: In Search of Hate in Dante’s Commedia - by Elizabeth CoggeshallPart Three: SciencesUgolino and the Practice of Divination through Dreams - by Ambrogio CamozziHitting the Mark: Projectile Motion and the “segno lieto” in Dante’s Commedia - by Carol ChiodoThe sphaera infinita in Dante’s Paradiso: Between the Suspension of the “geomètra” and Modern Physics - by Anna BagordaLegends of the Fall: Genetics and Corruption in Inferno 27 - by Christiana Purdy MoudarresPart Four: ArtsThe play’s the thing, wherein I’ll show the glory of the (Heavenly) King: Medieval Spectacle in Dante’s Purgatorio - by Loren Eadie“Non ciascun segno/è buono, ancor che buona sia la cera”: Dante’s Poetic Conversion and the Metapoetics of Purgatorio - by Siobhan Quinlan“Dare a Molti”: The Trecento Commentaries on Inferno 26 - by Rosa AffatatoMusic and Political History (Paradiso 15–17) - by Giuseppe MazzottaBibliographyIndex of NamesNotes on the Contributors