A new life of Dante

Machine generated contents note: 1 A FLORENTINE CHILDHOOD (1265-1283)

2 BEATRICE AND THE VITA NUOVA (1283-1295)

(i) Early Influences: The Medieval Lyric; Brunetto

Latini; the Roman Poets

(ii) The Detto d'Amore and the Fiore

(iii) From Bologna to Caprona

(iv) Beatrice

(v) The Vita Nuova

3 THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY (1290-1296)

(i) Boethius and Cicero

(ii) Aristotelianism and the Friars

(iii) Dante's Earliest Philosophical Poems

(iv) The Tenzone with Forese

(v) The Rime Petrose

(vi) Charles Martel

4 GUILDS AND GOVERNMENT: DANTE THE

POLITICIAN (1295-1300)

(i) The Florentine Political System

(ii) Giano della Bella's Reforms

(iii) Dante's Political Debut

(iv) Guelphs and Guelphs

(v) Dante in the Jubilee Year

A NEW LIFE OF DANTE

5 BONIFACE VIII AND THE BLACK COUP (1300-1302)

(i) Dante's Last Months in Florence

(ii) Boniface and Celestine

(iii) Boniface, Charles de Valois and Florence

(iv) The Coup and its Aftermath

6 EARLY EXILE (1302-1304)

(i) Dante in Tuscany, Forli and Verona

(ii) The De Vulgari Eloquentia

(iii) The Poems of Righteousness

(iv) Boniface and Philip IV

(v) Dante's Break with the Whites

7 A ONE-MAN PARTY (1304-1308)

(i) Cino da Pistoia and the Malaspina

(ii) The Convivio: Book I

(iii) Convivio II

(iv) Convivio III

(v) Convivio IV

(vi) The Casentino: Dante's last canzone

(vii) Lucca

8 THE SACRED POEM: A SURVEY OF THE DIVINE

COMEDY (1308-1321)

(i) Preliminaries

(ii) The Lost People

(iii) The Saved Spirits

(iv) The Dancing Lights

9 HENRY VII AND DANTE'S IMPERIAL DREAM

(1308-1313)

(i) A New Emperor

(ii) Henry's Descent and Dante's Fifth Letter

(iii) The Milan Coronation: Dante's Letters from Poppi

(iv) Henry's Foes: Florence, Clement and Robert

(v) After the Emperor's Death

10 THE GENTLEMAN OF VERONA (1312-1318)

(i) Dante and the Cardinals: The Eleventh Letter

(ii) Uguccione, Florence and Dante's Twelfth Letter

(iii) The Can Grande Letter

(iv) The Monarchia

11 RAVENNA (1318-1321)

(i) The Quaestio de aqua et terra

(ii) The Eclogues

(iii) The Mission to Venice; Dante's Death

CONCLUSION

Notes

Bibliography

Index.