ABSTRACT

Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy.



The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia:









  • brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid prose


  • provides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looking at title and form, moral structure, allegory and realism, manuscript tradition, and also taking account of the various editions of the work over the centuries


  • contains numerous entries on Dante's other important writings and on the major subjects covered within them


  • addresses connections between Dante and philosophy, theology, poetics, art, psychology, science, and music as well as critical perspective across the ages, from Dante's first critics to the present.




letter A|80 pages

entry |1 pages

Abati, Bocca degli

entry |1 pages

Abel

entry |1 pages

Abraham

entry |1 pages

Academics

entry |2 pages

Accident

entry |1 pages

Accorso, Francesco d'

entry |2 pages

Aceste

entry |1 pages

Acheron

entry |1 pages

Achilles

entry |1 pages

Achitophel

entry |1 pages

Acre

entry |1 pages

Active Life

entry |1 pages

Adam

entry |1 pages

Adolf of Nassau

entry |1 pages

Adrastus

entry |1 pages

Adrian V, Pope

entry |1 pages

Aeacus

entry |1 pages

Aeneas

entry |1 pages

Aeneid

entry |1 pages

Agathon

entry |1 pages

Ages of Life

entry |1 pages

Aghinolfo da Romena

entry |1 pages

Aglauros

entry |1 pages

Agnello de' Brunelleschi

entry |1 pages

Air

entry |1 pages

Alberigo, Fra

entry |1 pages

Albero da Siena

entry |1 pages

Albert I

entry |1 pages

Albert the Great

entry |1 pages

Alberto degli Alberti

entry |1 pages

Alberto della Scala

entry |1 pages

Alberto di Casalodi

entry |1 pages

Albumassar

entry |1 pages

Alchemy

entry |1 pages

Aldobrandesco, Guglielmo

entry |1 pages

Aldobrandi, Tegghiaio

entry |1 pages

Alecto

entry |1 pages

Alessandro da Romena

entry |1 pages

Alessandro degli Alberti

entry |1 pages

Alessandro Novello

entry |1 pages

Alexander the Great

entry |1 pages

Alfraganus

entry |1 pages

Algazel

entry |1 pages

Ali

entry |6 pages

Alighieri, Dante

entry |2 pages

Alighieri, Pietro

entry |3 pages

Alighieri Family

entry |10 pages

Allegory

entry |1 pages

Alliteration

entry |1 pages

Alpetragius

entry |1 pages

Amphiaraus

entry |1 pages

Anastasius II

entry |1 pages

Anaxagoras

entry |1 pages

Anchises

entry |1 pages

Andrea dei Mozzi, Bishop

entry |1 pages

Andreas

entry |8 pages

Angels

entry |1 pages

Angevin Dynasty

entry |1 pages

Angiolello da Carignano

entry |1 pages

Angiolieri, Cecco

entry |1 pages

Anna, St.

entry |1 pages

Annas

entry |1 pages

Anonimo Fiorentino

entry |1 pages

Anonimo Latino

entry |1 pages

Anselm of Canterbury, St.

entry |1 pages

Anselmuccio

entry |1 pages

Antaeus

entry |1 pages

Antenora

entry |1 pages

Ante-Purgatory

entry |1 pages

Antigone

entry |1 pages

Antiphon

entry |2 pages

Apocalypse

entry |2 pages

Apollo

entry |1 pages

Appetite

entry |2 pages

Aquinas, St. Thomas

entry |1 pages

Arachne

entry |1 pages

Arethusa

entry |2 pages

Argenti, Filippo

entry |1 pages

Argia

entry |1 pages

Ariosto, Ludovico

entry |4 pages

Aristotle

entry |1 pages

Arius

entry |1 pages

Arnaut Daniel

entry |1 pages

Arrigo

entry |1 pages

Arrigo Mainardi

entry |1 pages

Aruns

entry |1 pages

Asdente

entry |2 pages

Astrology

entry |2 pages

Astronomy

entry |1 pages

Atropos

entry |1 pages

Attila

entry |1 pages

Auerbach, Erich

entry |1 pages

Augustine, Friar

entry |1 pages

Augustine, St.

entry |1 pages

Augustus

entry |3 pages

Authority

entry |2 pages

Avarice

entry |2 pages

Avaricious and Prodigal, The

entry |1 pages

Averroës (Ibn-Rushd)

entry |1 pages

Avicenna

entry |1 pages

Azzolino

letter B|51 pages

entry |1 pages

Ballata

entry |1 pages

Bambaglioli, Graziolo de'

entry |2 pages

Baptism

entry |2 pages

Barbi, Michele

entry |1 pages

Barrators

entry |4 pages

Beasts, The Three

entry |1 pages

Beatitudes

entry |6 pages

Beatrice

entry |2 pages

Bede the Venerable, St.

entry |1 pages

Beelzebub

entry |1 pages

Belacqua

entry |1 pages

Benedict, St.

entry |1 pages

Benevento

entry |1 pages

Benincasa da Laterina

entry |1 pages

Benvenuto da Imola

entry |1 pages

Berenger, Raymond IV

entry |1 pages

Bernardin di Fosco

entry |1 pages

Bernard Silvester of Tours

entry |1 pages

Bernard, St.

entry |1 pages

Bertran de Born

entry |4 pages

Bible

entry |5 pages

Blacks and Whites

entry |2 pages

Blake, William

entry |2 pages

Blasphemy

entry |1 pages

Bocca degli Abati

entry |7 pages

Boccaccio, Giovanni

entry |4 pages

Body, Human

entry |2 pages

Boethius

entry |1 pages

Bolgia

entry |2 pages

Bonagiunta da Lucca

entry |1 pages

Bonatti, Guido

entry |2 pages

Bonaventure, St.

entry |2 pages

Bonconte da Montefeltro

entry |1 pages

Boniface, Archbishop

entry |3 pages

Boniface VIII, Pope

entry |1 pages

Bonturo Dati

entry |2 pages

Bonvesin da la Riva

entry |1 pages

Borsiere, Guiglielmo

entry |2 pages

Botticelli, Sandro

entry |1 pages

Branca d'Oria

entry |1 pages

Briareus

entry |2 pages

Brigata, Il

entry |3 pages

Brunetto Latini

entry |1 pages

Brutus, Lucius Junius

entry |2 pages

Brutus, Marcus Junius

entry |1 pages

Bryson

entry |1 pages

Buiamonte, Giovanni

entry |1 pages

Buondelmonte dei Buondelmonti

entry |2 pages

Buoso

entry |1 pages

Buoso da Duera

entry |1 pages

Buoso Donati

letter |112 pages

C

entry |2 pages

Cacciaguida

entry |1 pages

Caccianemico, Venedico

entry |1 pages

Cacus

entry |1 pages

Cadmus

entry |1 pages

Caecilius Statius

entry |1 pages

Cahors

entry |1 pages

Caiaphas

entry |2 pages

Cain

entry |1 pages

Caina

entry |2 pages

Calchas

entry |1 pages

Calixtus I, Pope

entry |1 pages

Calliope

entry |1 pages

Camilla

entry |1 pages

Camillus, Marcus Furius

entry |1 pages

Camiscion de' Pazzi

entry |1 pages

Campaldino

entry |2 pages

Cangrande della Scala

entry |2 pages

Cantica

entry |2 pages

Canto

entry |2 pages

Canzone

entry |1 pages

Capaneus

entry |1 pages

Capocchio

entry |2 pages

Caprona

entry |1 pages

Carlino de' Pazzi

entry |1 pages

Casalodi

entry |2 pages

Casella

entry |1 pages

Cassino, Monte

entry |2 pages

Cassius, Gaius Longinus

entry |1 pages

Castelvetro, Lodovico

entry |1 pages

Catalano

entry |1 pages

Catello di Rosso Giantigliazzi

entry |2 pages

Cathars

entry |4 pages

Cato of Utica

entry |1 pages

Cato the Elder

entry |2 pages

Causes, The Four

entry |2 pages

Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti

entry |2 pages

Celestine V, Pope

entry |3 pages

Centaurs

entry |2 pages

Cerberus

entry |2 pages

Chain of Being

entry |1 pages

Charity

entry |1 pages

Charlemagne

entry |2 pages

Charles I of Anjou

entry |3 pages

Charles II of Anjou

entry |1 pages

Charles Martel

entry |2 pages

Charles of Valois

entry |1 pages

Charon

entry |3 pages

Chaucer

entry |2 pages

Chiose all' “Inferno”

entry |1 pages

Chiron

entry |2 pages

Chivalry

entry |4 pages

Christ

entry |2 pages

Chronicles, Florentine

entry |2 pages

Chrysostom, St. John

entry |1 pages

Ciacco

entry |1 pages

Ciampolo

entry |1 pages

Cianfa

entry |2 pages

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

entry |1 pages

Cimabue

entry |1 pages

Cincinnatus, Lucus Quinctius

entry |1 pages

Cino da Pistoia

entry |1 pages

Circe

entry |1 pages

Clare, St.

entry |4 pages

Classical Antiquity

entry |2 pages

Classical Canon

entry |1 pages

Clemence of Habsburg

entry |2 pages

Clement IV, Pope

entry |2 pages

Clement V, Pope

entry |1 pages

Cleobulus

entry |1 pages

Cleopatra

entry |1 pages

Cletus, Pope

entry |1 pages

Clio

entry |1 pages

Clotho

entry |1 pages

Clymene

entry |3 pages

Cocytus

entry |1 pages

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

entry |2 pages

Comedy

entry |33 pages

Commedia

entry |1 pages

Commutative Justice

entry |2 pages

Compagni, Dino

entry |2 pages

Confession

entry |1 pages

Conrad I

entry |1 pages

Conrad II

entry |1 pages

Conrad III

entry |1 pages

Conradin

entry |1 pages

Constance

entry |2 pages

Constantine

entry |2 pages

Contemplative Life

entry |2 pages

Contini, Gianfranco

entry |4 pages

Contrapasso

entry |3 pages

Conversion

entry |9 pages

Convivio

entry |1 pages

Cornelia

entry |1 pages

Corso Donati

entry |4 pages

Cosmology

entry |4 pages

Courtly Love

entry |1 pages

Crassus

entry |2 pages

Croce, Benedetto

entry |3 pages

Crusades

entry |1 pages

Cunizza da Romano

entry |1 pages

Cupid

entry |2 pages

Cupidity

entry |1 pages

Curio

entry |1 pages

Curius

entry |1 pages

Currado da Palazzo

entry |1 pages

Curtius, Ernst Robert

entry |1 pages

Cyrus

letter D|83 pages

entry |2 pages

Dalí, Salvador

entry |2 pages

Damian, St. Peter

entry |1 pages

Daniel

entry |1 pages

Daniello, Bernardino

entry |4 pages

Dante and Film

entry |3 pages

Dante and the Arts

entry |4 pages

Dante and the Classical Tradition

entry |1 pages

Dante da Maiano

entry |5 pages

Dante in England

entry |4 pages

Dante in France

entry |8 pages

Dante in Germany

entry |8 pages

Dante in Italian Literature

entry |4 pages

Dante in Russia

entry |5 pages

Dante in Spain

entry |4 pages

Dante and Television

entry |2 pages

Dante Society of America

entry |1 pages

Dardanus

entry |3 pages

Dark Wood

entry |2 pages

David

entry |2 pages

De Sanctis, Francesco

entry |4 pages

De vulgari eloquentia

entry |2 pages

Decretalists

entry |1 pages

Deianira

entry |1 pages

Deidamia

entry |1 pages

Deiphyle

entry |2 pages

Delacroix, Eugène

entry |1 pages

Del Cassero, Guido

entry |1 pages

Del Cassero, Jacopo

entry |2 pages

Delight

entry |1 pages

Democritus

entry |2 pages

Demonology

entry |1 pages

Demophoön

entry |2 pages

Despair

entry |2 pages

Detto d'Amore

entry |2 pages

Deutsche Dante-Gesellschaft

entry |3 pages

Devils

entry |1 pages

Diana, the Goddess

entry |1 pages

Dido

entry |1 pages

Diogenes

entry |2 pages

Diomedes

entry |1 pages

Dionysius Agricola, or Diniz

entry |1 pages

Dionysius the Academician

entry |2 pages

Dionysius the Areopagite

entry |1 pages

Dionysius the Elder

entry |2 pages

Dioscorides

entry |2 pages

Dis

entry |1 pages

Distributive Justice

entry |1 pages

Divine Comedy.

entry |4 pages

Dolce stil novo

entry |1 pages

Dolce, Lodovico

entry |1 pages

Dolcino, Fra

entry |2 pages

Dominic, St.

entry |3 pages

Dominicans

entry |1 pages

Domitian, Emperor

entry |2 pages

Donation of Constantine

entry |1 pages

Donatus

entry |3 pages

Donna gentile of the Vita Nuova

entry |1 pages

Doré, Paul Gustave

entry |6 pages

Dramatic Arts

entry |3 pages

Dreams

letter E|40 pages

entry |2 pages

Eagle

entry |3 pages

Earth, Globe

entry |1 pages

Earth, Element

entry |5 pages

Earthly Paradise

entry |2 pages

Eclogues

entry |2 pages

Egypt

entry |1 pages

Electra

entry |1 pages

Elements

entry |2 pages

Elijah

entry |1 pages

Eliot, T[homas] S[tearns]

entry |1 pages

Elisha

entry |1 pages

Elysium

entry |1 pages

Empedocles

entry |4 pages

Empire

entry |2 pages

Empyrean

entry |2 pages

England

entry |2 pages

Envy

entry |1 pages

Ephialtes

entry |3 pages

Epic Poetry

entry |2 pages

Epicureans

entry |1 pages

Epicurus

entry |2 pages

Epicycle

entry |5 pages

Epistle to Cangrande

entry |4 pages

Epistles

entry |1 pages

Erard de Valéry

entry |2 pages

Erichtho

entry |1 pages

Erysichthon

entry |1 pages

Esau

entry |1 pages

Esther

entry |2 pages

Eteocles

entry |1 pages

Eternity

entry |1 pages

Euclid

entry |2 pages

Eunoe

entry |1 pages

Euripides

entry |2 pages

Europa

entry |1 pages

Europe

entry |1 pages

Euryalus

entry |2 pages

Eurypylus

entry |1 pages

Eve

entry |3 pages

Excommunicates

entry |4 pages

Exile

entry |1 pages

Exodus

entry |1 pages

Ezekiel (Erechiele)

entry |2 pages

Ezzelino III da Romano

letter F|63 pages

Fabbro de' Lambertazzi

entry |1 pages

Fabricius

entry |3 pages

Fall of Man

entry |1 pages

Falsifiers

entry |1 pages

Fantasy

entry |4 pages

Farinata degli Uberti

entry |2 pages

Federico Novello

entry |1 pages

Federigo Tignoso

entry |1 pages

Feltro

entry |1 pages

Ferdinand IV of Castille

entry |2 pages

Fiesole

entry |5 pages

Figuralism

entry |3 pages

Fiore

entry |1 pages

Fire

entry |3 pages

Five Hundred Ten and Five

entry |2 pages

Fixed Stars

entry |1 pages

Flatterers

entry |3 pages

Flaxman, John

entry |18 pages

Florence

entry |1 pages

Focaccia

entry |1 pages

Folco of Marseilles

entry |2 pages

Forese Donati

entry |3 pages

Fortune

entry |1 pages

Foscolo, Ugo

entry |2 pages

Foster, Kenelm, O.P.

entry |3 pages

France

entry |6 pages

Francesca da Rimini

entry |1 pages

Francesco da Buti

entry |1 pages

Francesco de' Cavalcanti

entry |3 pages

Francis of Assisi, St.

entry |4 pages

Franciscans

entry |1 pages

Franco of Bologna

entry |4 pages

Fraud

entry |2 pages

Fraudulent Counsel

entry |2 pages

Frederick I, Emperor

entry |2 pages

Frederick II of Swabia

entry |1 pages

Frederick II of Aragon

entry |3 pages

Free Will

entry |2 pages

Fubini, Mario

entry |1 pages

Fucci, Vanni

entry |1 pages

Fulcieri da Calboli

entry |2 pages

Furies

letter |38 pages

G

entry |1 pages

Gabriel, the Archangel

entry |1 pages

Gaddo

entry |1 pages

Gaeta

entry |2 pages

Galen

entry |1 pages

Gallehaut

entry |1 pages

Ganelon

entry |1 pages

Ganges

entry |1 pages

Gano degli Scornigiani

entry |1 pages

Ganymede

entry |2 pages

Garamantes

entry |1 pages

Gardner, Edmund Garrat

entry |1 pages

Gemma Donati

entry |2 pages

Gentucca

entry |1 pages

Geri del Bello

entry |3 pages

Germany

entry |3 pages

Geryon

entry |1 pages

Gherardo da Camino

entry |5 pages

Ghibellines

entry |1 pages

Ghino di Tacco

entry |1 pages

Ghisolabella

entry |2 pages

Giacomino da Verona

entry |1 pages

Giacomo da Santo Andrea

entry |2 pages

Giacomo da Lentini

entry |1 pages

Gianni de' Soldanieri

entry |1 pages

Gianni, Lapo

entry |1 pages

Giano della Bella

entry |4 pages

Giants

entry |1 pages

Gideon

entry |1 pages

Gilson, Étienne

entry |2 pages

Giotto

entry |1 pages

Giovanna

entry |2 pages

Giovanna, Daughter of Nino

entry |1 pages

Giovanna, Wife of Bonconte

entry |1 pages

Giraut de Bornelh

entry |1 pages

Glaucus

entry |2 pages

Gluttons

entry |2 pages

Gluttony

entry |2 pages

Godfrey of Bouillon

entry |1 pages

Gomita, Fra

entry |2 pages

Grammar

entry |2 pages

Grandgent, Charles Hall

entry |1 pages

Gratian

entry |2 pages

Greeks

entry |2 pages

Gregory the Great

entry |2 pages

Griffin

entry |1 pages

Griffolino

entry |1 pages

Guccio de' Tarlati

entry |4 pages

Guelfs

entry |3 pages

Guido Cavalcanti

entry |1 pages

Guido Guerra

entry |2 pages

Guido II of Romena

entry |1 pages

Guido da Castello

entry |2 pages

Guido da Montefeltro

entry |2 pages

Guido da Pisa

entry |1 pages

Guido da Prata

entry |1 pages

Guido del Duca

entry |1 pages

Guido delle Colonne

entry |1 pages

Guido di Carpigna

entry |1 pages

Guinevere

entry |2 pages

Guinizzelli, Guido

entry |1 pages

Guiscard, Robert

entry |1 pages

Guittone d'Arezzo

entry |1 pages

Guy de Montfort

letter |29 pages

H

entry |1 pages

Haakon V of Norway

entry |2 pages

Habit

entry |1 pages

Haman

entry |2 pages

Harpies

entry |2 pages

Harrowing of Hell

entry |1 pages

Hector

entry |2 pages

Hecuba

entry |1 pages

Helen of Troy

entry |1 pages

Heliodorus

entry |6 pages

Hell

entry |2 pages

Hendecasyllable

entry |1 pages

Henry I

entry |2 pages

Henry II of England

entry |1 pages

Henry II of Lusignan

entry |1 pages

Henry III of England

entry |1 pages

Henry of Susa

entry |1 pages

Henry VI, Emperor

entry |1 pages

Henry, the Young King

entry |3 pages

Henry VII of Luxemburg

entry |1 pages

Heraclitus

entry |1 pages

Hercules, Pillars of

entry |4 pages

Heresy

entry |3 pages

Heretics

entry |1 pages

Hermaphrodite

entry |1 pages

Hezekiah

entry |1 pages

Hippocrates

entry |2 pages

Hippolytus

entry |6 pages

History

entry |2 pages

Holofernes

entry |1 pages

Homer

entry |2 pages

Homicide

entry |1 pages

Horace

entry |1 pages

Hugh Capet

entry |1 pages

Hugh of St. Victor

entry |1 pages

Hypocrites

entry |1 pages

Hypsipyle

letter |36 pages

I

entry |1 pages

Iacopo della Lana

entry |1 pages

Icarus

entry |1 pages

Illuminato da Rieti

entry |5 pages

Illustrations, Medieval and Renaissance

entry |4 pages

Illustrations, Modern

entry |2 pages

Imagination

entry |1 pages

Immortality

entry |3 pages

In exitu Israel de Aegypto

entry |1 pages

Incarnation

entry |4 pages

Incontinence

entry |1 pages

Indolent

entry |7 pages

Inferno

entry |2 pages

Injustice

entry |2 pages

Intellect

entry |1 pages

Interminei, Alessio

entry |1 pages

Iole

entry |1 pages

Iphigenia

entry |1 pages

Iris

entry |1 pages

Isidore, St.

entry |4 pages

Islam and Islamic Culture

entry |1 pages

Ismene

entry |1 pages

Israel

entry |4 pages

Italian Language

entry |5 pages

Italy

letter |18 pages

J

entry |1 pages

Jacob

entry |1 pages

Jacopo di Dante

entry |2 pages

Jahrbuch der Deutschen Dante-Gesellschaft

entry |1 pages

James II of Aragon

entry |1 pages

James, King of Majorca

entry |1 pages

James, St., the Apostle

entry |1 pages

Jason

entry |1 pages

Jason, High Priest

entry |1 pages

Jerome, St.

entry |2 pages

Jerusalem

entry |2 pages

Joachim of Fiore

entry |2 pages

Jocasta

entry |1 pages

John the Baptist, St.

entry |3 pages

John, St.

entry |1 pages

Jordan

entry |1 pages

Joseph, St.

entry |1 pages

Joshua

entry |1 pages

Jovial Friars

entry |2 pages

Jubilee Year

entry |1 pages

Judah

entry |2 pages

Judas Iscariot

entry |1 pages

Judas Maccabeus

entry |1 pages

Judecca

entry |2 pages

Judgment, Last

entry |1 pages

Judith

entry |1 pages

Julia

entry |2 pages

Julius Caesar

entry |1 pages

Juno

entry |3 pages

Jupiter

entry |3 pages

Justice

entry |1 pages

Justinian

entry |1 pages

Juvenal

letter |32 pages

L

entry |1 pages

Lachesis

entry |3 pages

Lady Philosophy

entry |1 pages

Lancelot

entry |2 pages

Landino, Cristoforo

entry |1 pages

Lano

entry |1 pages

Laomedon

entry |2 pages

Late Repentant

entry |2 pages

Latin Language

entry |2 pages

Latinus

entry |1 pages

Latona

entry |1 pages

Lavinia

entry |1 pages

Law

entry |3 pages

Ius

entry |2 pages

Ragione scritta

entry |1 pages

Lawrence, St.

entry |1 pages

Leah

entry |2 pages

Leander

entry |1 pages

Learchus

entry |1 pages

Lelio

entry |2 pages

Lethe

entry |1 pages

Levi

entry |4 pages

Light

entry |5 pages

Limbo

entry |1 pages

Linus

entry |1 pages

Linus, Pope

entry |3 pages

Liturgy

entry |1 pages

Livy

entry |1 pages

Lizio da Valbona

entry |1 pages

Loderingo degli Andalò

entry |2 pages

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

entry |1 pages

Lotto degli Agli

entry |2 pages

Lucan

entry |3 pages

Lucifer

entry |2 pages

Lucilius

entry |1 pages

Lucretia

entry |2 pages

Lucy, St.

entry |1 pages

Luke, St.

entry |2 pages

Lustful, The

entry |1 pages

Lycurgus

entry |4 pages

Lyric Poetry (Dante's)

letter |54 pages

M

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Macarius, St.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington

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Magnanimity

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Malebolge

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Malice

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Manfred

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Manlius Capitolinus

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Manto

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Marchese, Messer

entry |1 pages

Marcia

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Marco Lombardo

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Mark, St.

entry |2 pages

Mars

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Marsyas

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Martha

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Martin IV

entry |3 pages

Martyrdom

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Mary, the Virgin

entry |1 pages

Mary Magdalen

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Mary of Jerusalem

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Master Adam

entry |4 pages

Matelda

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Matthew, St.

entry |1 pages

Medea

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Medusa

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Megaera

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Meleager

entry |1 pages

Melissus

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Memory

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Mendicant Orders

entry |1 pages

Mercury

entry |1 pages

Meridian

entry |2 pages

Messo celeste

entry |1 pages

Metellus

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Metrics and Versification: The Minor Works

entry |1 pages

Michael, the Archangel

entry |1 pages

Michal

entry |3 pages

Microcosm

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Midas

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Minerva

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Minos

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Minotaur

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Momigliano, Attilio

entry |8 pages

Monarchia

entry |3 pages

Monasticism

entry |1 pages

Montaperti

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Moon

entry |2 pages

Moore, Edward

entry |1 pages

Mordecai

entry |1 pages

Mordred

entry |2 pages

Moroello Malaspina

entry |1 pages

Mosca de' Lamberti

entry |1 pages

Moses

entry |1 pages

Mucius

entry |1 pages

Muhammad

entry |1 pages

Muses, the

entry |4 pages

Music

entry |1 pages

Myrrha

entry |3 pages

Mysticism

letter |21 pages

N

entry |1 pages

Napoleone degli Alberti

entry |1 pages

Narcissus

entry |1 pages

Nardi, Bruno

entry |1 pages

Nathan

entry |1 pages

Navarre, King of

entry |1 pages

Nebuchadnezzar

entry |2 pages

Negligent Rulers

entry |1 pages

Nella

entry |2 pages

Neologisms

entry |6 pages

Neoplatonism

entry |1 pages

Neptune

entry |1 pages

Nessus

entry |3 pages

Neutrals

entry |1 pages

Niccolò of Siena

entry |2 pages

Nicholas III, Pope

entry |1 pages

Nicholas, St.

entry |1 pages

Nimrod

entry |1 pages

Niobe

entry |2 pages

Nisus

entry |1 pages

Noah

entry |3 pages

Noble Castle

entry |2 pages

Norton, Charles Eliot

entry |1 pages

Numa Pompilius

entry |5 pages

Numerology

letter 658O|11 pages

entry |1 pages

Oderisi da Gubbio

entry |2 pages

Old Man of Crete

entry |1 pages

Olivi, Petrus Johannis

entry |1 pages

Omberto Aldobrandeschi

entry |1 pages

Opizzo II da Este

entry |2 pages

Optics

entry |1 pages

Orestes

entry |1 pages

Orlando

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Orosius, Paulus

entry |1 pages

Orpheus

entry |1 pages

Orso, Count

entry |2 pages

Otherworld Journeys

entry |2 pages

Ottaviano, Cardinal

entry |1 pages

Ottimo Commento

entry |1 pages

Ottokar II, King of Bohemia

entry |2 pages

Ovid

entry |1 pages

Oxford Dante Society

letter |65 pages

P

entry |1 pages

Pallas

entry |1 pages

Panders and Seducers

entry |2 pages

Paolo Malatesta

entry |2 pages

Papacy

entry |4 pages

Paradise

entry |5 pages

Paradiso

entry |1 pages

Paris

entry |1 pages

Parmenides

entry |2 pages

Parnassus

entry |1 pages

Pasiphae

entry |2 pages

Paul, St.

entry |1 pages

Pazzo, Rinier

entry |1 pages

Penthesilea

entry |2 pages

Peraldus, William

entry |2 pages

Perillus

entry |1 pages

Peripatetics

entry |1 pages

Persius

entry |1 pages

Peter the Comb-Seller

entry |1 pages

Peter Comestor

entry |2 pages

Peter Lombard

entry |1 pages

Peter of Spain

entry |2 pages

Peter, St.

entry |2 pages

Peter III of Aragon

entry |3 pages

Petrarch

entry |2 pages

Petrocchi, Giorgio

entry |2 pages

Petrose Poems

entry |1 pages

Pézard, André

entry |1 pages

Phaëthon

entry |1 pages

Pharisees

entry |1 pages

Philip III

entry |1 pages

Philip IV, the Fair

entry |4 pages

Philosophy

entry |1 pages

Phlegethon

entry |1 pages

Phlegyas

entry |1 pages

Pholus

entry |1 pages

Photinus

entry |1 pages

Pia, La

entry |3 pages

Piccarda Donati

entry |1 pages

Pier da Medicina

entry |3 pages

Pier della Vigna

entry |1 pages

Pier Traversaro

entry |1 pages

Pierre de la Brosse

entry |1 pages

Pietro Bernardone

entry |1 pages

Pietrobono, Luigi

entry |3 pages

Pilgrimage

entry |1 pages

Pisistratus

entry |1 pages

Pius I, Pope

entry |2 pages

Plato

entry |1 pages

Plautus

entry |1 pages

Polycletus

entry |1 pages

Polydorus

entry |1 pages

Polymnestor

entry |1 pages

Polynices

entry |2 pages

Polyxena

entry |1 pages

Pompey

entry |1 pages

Pound, Ezra

entry |3 pages

Poverty

entry |3 pages

Prayer

entry |3 pages

Pride

entry |2 pages

Primum Mobile

entry |1 pages

Priscian

entry |2 pages

Prodigality

entry |1 pages

Prometheus

entry |4 pages

Prophecy

entry |2 pages

Prose

entry |2 pages

Proserpina

entry |1 pages

Provenzan Salvani

entry |2 pages

Psalms

entry |3 pages

Ptolemaic Universe

entry |1 pages

Ptolemy

entry |1 pages

Ptolomea

entry |2 pages

Puccio Sciancato

entry |6 pages

Purgatorio

entry |4 pages

Purgatory

entry |1 pages

Pygmalion

entry |1 pages

Pyramus

entry |1 pages

Pyrrhus

entry |2 pages

Pythagoras

letter |3 pages

Q

entry |2 pages

Questio de aqua et terra

entry |2 pages

Quadrivium

letter |22 pages

R

entry |1 pages

Rabanus, Maurus

entry |1 pages

Rachel

entry |2 pages

Rahab

entry |3 pages

Reason

entry |1 pages

Rebecca

entry |1 pages

Reginaldo de' Scrovegni

entry |1 pages

Regulus, Marcus Attilius

entry |2 pages

Rehoboam

entry |1 pages

Renouard

entry |2 pages

Resurrection

entry |3 pages

Revelation

entry |1 pages

Richard of St. Victor

entry |1 pages

Rime. See Lyric Poetry (Dante's)

entry |1 pages

Rinier da Corneto

entry |1 pages

Rinieri da Calboli

entry |2 pages

Ripheus

entry |2 pages

Robert of Anjou

entry |1 pages

Roland

entry |4 pages

Romanticism

entry |7 pages

Rome

entry |2 pages

Romeo di Villanova

entry |1 pages

Romuald, St.

entry |1 pages

Romulus

entry |1 pages

Rudolph I

entry |2 pages

Ruggieri, Archbishop

entry |1 pages

Rusticucci, Iacopo

entry |1 pages

Ruth

letter |48 pages

S

entry |1 pages

Sabellius

entry |1 pages

Sabellus

entry |2 pages

Saints

entry |1 pages

Saladin

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Salterello, Lapo

entry |2 pages

Salvation

entry |1 pages

Samaritan

entry |1 pages

San Zeno, Abbot of

entry |2 pages

Sapia

entry |1 pages

Saracens

entry |1 pages

Sarah

entry |1 pages

Sassol Mascheroni

entry |1 pages

Satan

entry |2 pages

Saturn

entry |1 pages

Saul

entry |1 pages

Sayers, Dorothy Leigh

entry |2 pages

Schicchi, Gianni

entry |2 pages

Schismatics

entry |1 pages

Sciarra Colonna

entry |4 pages

Science

entry |1 pages

Scipio

entry |1 pages

Scot, Michael

entry |2 pages

Screen Lady

entry |1 pages

Semele

entry |1 pages

Semiramis

entry |2 pages

Seneca

entry |1 pages

Sennacherib

entry |2 pages

Sestina

entry |1 pages

Sesto

entry |3 pages

Sexuality

entry |1 pages

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

entry |1 pages

Sibyl

entry |2 pages

Sicilian School

entry |2 pages

Siger of Brabant

entry |4 pages

Simile

entry |1 pages

Simon Magus

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Simonides

entry |2 pages

Simonists

entry |1 pages

Simony

entry |1 pages

Singleton, Charles Southward

entry |1 pages

Sinon

entry |2 pages

Siren

entry |3 pages

Sloth

entry |2 pages

Società Dantesca Italiana

entry |1 pages

Socrates

entry |2 pages

Sodomites

entry |2 pages

Sodomy

entry |1 pages

Soldan

entry |1 pages

Solomon

entry |1 pages

Solon

entry |2 pages

Song of Songs

entry |2 pages

Sonnet

entry |3 pages

Soothsayers

entry |2 pages

Sordello

entry |2 pages

Soul

entry |1 pages

Spendthrifts

entry |1 pages

Spitzer, Leo

entry |3 pages

Statius

entry |1 pages

Stephen, St.

entry |1 pages

Stephen Urosh II of Serbia

entry |1 pages

Stricca

entry |2 pages

Styx

entry |2 pages

Suicide

entry |2 pages

Sun

entry |1 pages

Sylvester, St.

entry |1 pages

Sylvester I, Pope

entry |4 pages

Symbolism

letter |31 pages

T

entry |1 pages

Tarquin

entry |1 pages

Tebaldello

entry |2 pages

Tenzone

entry |1 pages

Terence

entry |3 pages

Terza rima

entry |2 pages

Tesauro de' Beccheria

entry |1 pages

Tesiphone

entry |1 pages

Thaddeus

entry |1 pages

Thais

entry |1 pages

Thales

entry |1 pages

Thebes

entry |5 pages

Theology

entry |4 pages

Theory and Criticism (Contemporary)

entry |1 pages

Theseus

entry |1 pages

Thetis

entry |2 pages

Thieves

entry |1 pages

Thisbe

entry |2 pages

Timaeus

entry |1 pages

Tiresias

entry |1 pages

Tithonus

entry |1 pages

Titus

entry |1 pages

Tityus

entry |1 pages

Tomyris

entry |1 pages

Torquatus

entry |1 pages

Toynbee, Paget Jackson

entry |1 pages

Tragedy

entry |1 pages

Traitors

entry |1 pages

Trajan

entry |6 pages

Translations in English

entry |2 pages

Treachery

entry |1 pages

Trinity

entry |1 pages

Tristan

entry |2 pages

Trivium

entry |2 pages

Trojans

entry |2 pages

Troy

entry |1 pages

Turnus

entry |2 pages

Tuscany

entry |1 pages

Tydeus

entry |1 pages

Typhon

letter 838U|12 pages

entry |1 pages

Ubaldino della Pila

entry |1 pages

Ubertino da Casale

entry |1 pages

Ugolin d'Azzo

entry |1 pages

Ugolin d'Azzo

entry |3 pages

Ugolino della Gherardesca

entry |1 pages

Uguccione da Lodi

entry |1 pages

Uguccione de' Bagni

entry |1 pages

Uguccione della Faggiuola

entry |1 pages

Uguiccione della Gherardesca

entry |6 pages

Ulysses

entry |1 pages

Urban I, Pope

entry |3 pages

Usury

letter |30 pages

V

entry |1 pages

Varius

entry |1 pages

Vatican

entry |1 pages

Vellutello, Alessandro

entry |4 pages

Veltro

entry |2 pages

Venus

entry |1 pages

Vernani, Guido, O.P.

entry |1 pages

Vernon, William Warren

entry |1 pages

Veronica, The

entry |2 pages

Vico, Giambattista

entry |1 pages

Vico, Manfredi da

entry |1 pages

Villani, Filippo

entry |2 pages

Villani, Giovanni

entry |4 pages

Violence

entry |4 pages

Virgil

entry |2 pages

Virgilio, Giovanni del

entry |6 pages

Virtues and Vices

entry |3 pages

Virtuous Heathen

entry |2 pages

Visconti, Nino de'

entry |5 pages

Vita Nuova

entry |1 pages

Vitaliano

entry |2 pages

Vossler, Karl

letter |14 pages

W

entry |1 pages

Water

entry |1 pages

Wenceslaus II of Bohemia

entry |2 pages

White Rose

entry |1 pages

Wife of Potiphar

entry |1 pages

Wilkins, Ernest Hatch

entry |2 pages

Will

entry |1 pages

William of Nogaret

entry |1 pages

William of Orange

entry |1 pages

William II of Sicily

entry |1 pages

William VII of Monferrat

entry |2 pages

Witte, Karl

entry |3 pages

Women

entry |2 pages

Wrath

entry |3 pages

Wrathful, The

letter |1 pages

X

entry |1 pages

Xerxes

letter |2 pages

Z

entry |1 pages

Zanche, Michele

entry |1 pages

Zeno

entry |1 pages

Zodiac