The Complete Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy Has, Despite Its Enormous Popularity And Importance, Often Stymied Readers With Its Multitudinous Characters, References, And Themes. But Until The Publication In 2007 Of Guy Raffa’s Guide To The Inferno, Students Lacked A Suitable Resource To Help Them Navigate Dante’s Underworld. With This New Guide To The Entire Divine Comedy, Raffa Provides Readers—experts In The Middle Ages And Renaissance, Dante Neophytes, And Everyone In Between—with A Map Of The Entire Poem, From The Lowest Circle Of Hell To The Highest Sphere Of Paradise. Based On Raffa’s Original Research And His Many Years Of Teaching The Poem To Undergraduates, The Complete Danteworlds Charts A Simultaneously Geographical And Textual Journey, Canto By Canto, Region By Region, Adhering Closely To The Path Taken By Dante Himself Through Hell, Purgatory, And Paradise. This Invaluable Reference Also Features Study Questions, Illustrations Of The Realms, And Regional Summaries. Interpreting Dante’s Poem And His Sources, Raffa Fashions Detailed Entries On Each Character Encountered As Well As On Many Significant Historical, Religious, And Cultural Allusions.--publisher Description. Welcome To Danteworlds -- Major Events In Dante's Life -- Map Of Italy In The Thirteenth Century -- Hell -- Illustration Of Dante's Hell -- Dark Wood (inferno 12) -- Periphery Of Hell: Cowardice (inferno 3) -- Circle 1: Limbo (inferno 4) -- Circle 2: Lust (inferno 5) -- Circle 3: Gluttony (inferno 6) -- Circle 4: Avarice And Prodigality (inferno 7) -- Circle 5: Wrath And Sullenness (inferno 79) -- Circle 6: Heresy (inferno 911) -- Circle 7: Violence (inferno 1217) -- Circle 8, Pouches 16: Fraud (inferno 1823) -- Circle 8, Pouches 710: Fraud (inferno 2430) -- Circle 9: Treachery (inferno 3134) -- Changing Values? -- Purgatory -- Illustration Of Dante's Purgatory -- Ante-purgatory: Late Repentant (purgatorio 16) -- Valley Of Rulers (purgatorio 69) -- Terrace 1: Pride (purgatorio 1012) -- Terrace 2: Envy (purgatorio 1315) -- Terrace 3: Wrath (purgatorio 1517) -- Terrace 4: Sloth (purgatorio 1719) -- Terrace 5: Avarice And Prodigality (purgatorio 1922) -- Terrace 6: Gluttony (purgatorio 2224) -- Terrace 7: Lust (purgatorio 2527) -- Terrestrial Paradise (purgatorio 2833) -- Dante Today -- Paradise -- Illustration Of Dante's Paradise -- Moon: Vow-breakers (paradiso 15) -- Mercury: Fame-seekers (paradiso 57) -- Venus: Ardent Lovers (paradiso 89) -- Sun: Wise Spirits (paradiso 1014) -- Mars: Holy Warriors (paradiso 1418) -- Jupiter: Just Rulers (paradiso 1820) -- Saturn: Contemplatives (paradiso 2122) -- Fixed Stars: Church Triumphant (paradiso 2227) -- Primum Mobile: Angelic Orders (paradiso 2730) -- Empyrean: Blessed, Angels, Holy Trinity (paradiso 3033) -- Dante And Interdisciplinarity. Guy P. Raffa. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [333]-348) And Index.