Understanding Dante

Dante's new life: Vita Nova

Language and the craft of literature: de vulgari eloquentia

Dante's lyric poetry: Rime

Dante's banquet of knowledge: Convivio

Dante's vision of world empire and peace: Monarchia

The Comedy, prolegomena: The prologue scene (Inferno I-2)

Dante's other world: Moral order

Dante's other world: Topography and demography

Dante and classical antiquity

The poet of the Comedy

The Comedy and the Bible

Dante and his contemporary world

Dante's Latin epistles, Questio de aqua et terra, and eclogues.