附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-283) and index.
pt. 1. Dante's politics -- Dante's political experience (1265-1302) -- Dante's political experience: exile and conversion (1302-1305) -- Exul inmeritus (1305-1321) -- pt. 2. Dante's purgatorio -- Cato: a pagan suicide in purgatory -- Manfred and Bonconte -- The Sordello episode (Purgatorio vi-viii) -- The dream and the entrance to purgatory (Purgatorio ix-x) -- The poem's center (Purgatorio xii-xviii) -- The she-wolf and the shepherds (Purgatorio xix-xx) -- The apocalypse (Purgatorio xxix-xxxiii).
