The survival and transformation of Dante's vision of reality / by Erich Auerbach -- The poetry of Dante / Luigi Pirandello -- The Vita Nuova / by T.S. Eliot -- Introduction to Dante's Rime / Gianfranco Contini -- Dante and medieval culture / Bruno Nardi -- The mind in love: Dante's philosophy / Kenelm Foster -- Paolo and Francesca / by Renato Poggioli -- Speech and language in Inferno XIII / Leo Spitzer -- "In exitu Israel de Aegypto" / Charles S. Singleton -- Dante's DXV / by R.E. Kaske -- Civitas / Alessandro Passerin d'Entrèves -- The metamorphoses of the circle / Georges Poulet -- The recollection of the way / Charles Williams
Summary
Fourteen essays which examine the problem of the relationship of poetry to belief in Dante's "The Divine Comedy."