Filippo Gianferrari is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received a PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and an MA and BA from the University of Bologna. Before joining UCSC, he taught at Vassar College and Smith College.Ronald Herzman is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York, Geneseo. In addition to Geneseo, where he continues to teach Dante, he has taught Dante at Georgetown University, St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New York University, Regis High School, and Attica Correctional Facility.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsEditions, Translation, and AbbreviationsA Chronology of Dante's Life and WorksIntroduction: A Restless ParadiseFilippo Gianferrari and Ronald HerzmanPart I: Foundations1. The Structure of Dante’s Paradiso: or How to Tell a Story Beyond Time and Space (Paradiso 1–4)Alejandro Cuadrado 2. From End to Beginning: Cosmogony and CosmologyTheodore J. Cachey, Jr.3. Hierarchy and DiversityPaola Nasti4. Beatrice in Paradiso Elena LombardiPart II: Readings5. The Subject of Violence (Paradiso 3–5)Brenda Deen Schildgen6. Heat and Light in the Sun (Paradiso 10–14)Ronald Herzman7. The Body of Knowledge (Paradiso 14)Filippo Gianferrari8. Politics and Prophecy: Past, Present, and Future (Paradiso 15–18)Rev Dr Claire Honess9. Justice for All (Paradiso 18–20)Akash Kumar10. Dante among the Stars (Paradiso 22–27)Zygmunt G. Barański11. Language (Paradiso 26)Heather Webb12. The Edge of the Universe (Paradiso 27–30)Alison Cornish13. The Virgin Mary in Paradiso: Flower of HumanityBrian K. Reynolds14. The End of Imagination (Paradiso 33)William FrankePart III: Global Perspectives 15. Early ReceptionsSimon A. Gilson16. Paradiso in World Religions and SpiritualitiesEileen Gardiner17. Dante’s Paradiso: A Text that Can Foster Interreligious Dialogue?Vittorio Montemaggi18. The Love that Moves: Dante’s Paradiso in Contemporary CultureArielle SaiberBibliographyIndex