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Dante's Political Purgatory

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's disti...
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  • 29 February 1996
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Price: $84.95
Pages: 312
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Series: Anniversary Collection
Publication Date: 29 February 1996
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780812233469
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
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John A. Scott is Emeritus Professor of European Languages at the University of Western Australia.

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Preface

PART 1. DANTE'S POLITICS
Ch. 1. Dante's Political Experience (1265-1302)
Ch. 2. Dante's Political Experience: Exile and Conversion (1302-1305)
Ch. 3. Exul Inmeritus (1305-1321)

PART 2. DANTE'S PURGATORIO
Introduction to Part Two
Ch. 4. Cato: A Pagan Suicide in Purgatory
Ch. 5. Manfred and Bonconte
Ch. 6. The Sordello Episode (Purgatorio VI-VIII)
Ch. 7. The Dream and the Entrance to Purgatory (Purgatorio IX-X)
Ch. 8. The Poem's Center (Purgatorio XII-XVIII)
Ch. 9. The She-Wolf and the Shepherds (Purgatorio XIX-XX)
Ch. 10. The Apocalypse (Purgatorio XXIX-XXXIII)

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index