Dante

by Edmund G. Gardner

(See also Tables of [Hell], [Purgatory], [Paradise], and [Bibliographical Appendix])

• Alighieri, Dante, on the “Sicilian” poetry, [4], [5];
• birth and family, [6], [7];
• boyhood, [9], [10];
• biographers, [11];
• first love, [12], [13];
• youth and friends, [14], [15];
• probable visit to Bologna and military service, [15], [18], [19];
• loss of Beatrice, [20];
• philosophic devotion, [20];
• moral aberrations, [21];
• friendship with Forese Donati, [22], and with Betto Brunelleschi, [22];
• supposed loves, [22], [23];
• marriage, children, and debts, [23], [24];
• first steps in political life, [25-27];
• embassy to San Gemignano, [27];
• possible visit to Rome, [29];
• Priorate, [31];
• subsequent political acts, [32-34];
• embassy to the Pope, [34-35];
• accusations and sentences against him, [36-38];
• his undoubted innocence, [38];
• first period of exile, [39-40];
• at Gargonza and San Godenzo, [40];
• breaks with the Bianchi, [41];
• goes to Verona, [43];
• probably at Bologna, [43];
• possibly at Padua, [44];
• in Lunigiana and the Casentino, [44], [45];
• writes to the Florentine people, [45], [46];
• possibly at Paris, [46], [47];
• in the advent of Henry of Luxemburg, [48], [49];
• letters and fresh sentence, [50], [51];
• probably at Pisa, [52];
• does not accompany the Emperor against Florence, [53];
• renewed wanderings, [53];
• admonishes the Italian cardinals, [54];
• at Lucca, [55];
• rejection of amnesty, [55];
• new condemnation to death, [56];
• at Verona, [57];
• at Ravenna, [58], [59];
• probable visit to Mantua and Verona, [58];
• last days at Ravenna, [59];
• his embassy to Venice, [59];
• his death, [60];
• his works, [61-63];
• publication and diffusion of the Commedia, [64];
• his commentators, [64], [65];
• influence of Guido Guinizelli, [67], [68];
• the Vita Nuova, [10-14], [20], [61], [67-81], [82-86], [88], [96], [98], [99], [111], [120], [181], [201];
• the Rime or Canzoniere, [15], [21], [22], [35], [38], [45], [62], [82-93], [96-98], [104], [107], [108], [122], [127];
• the Convivio, [10], [20], [38], [39], [45], [48], [61], [62], [70], [72], [80], [81], [82], [85-88], [94-101], [102], [108], [114], [117]n., [146], [155], [166], [167], [184], [192], [194], [195], [214];
• De Vulgari Eloquentia, [4], [5], [21], [36], [38], [44], [62], [63], [81], [87], [88], [90-92], [102-109], [128], [152], [181];
• the Monarchia, [62], [109-120], [142], [147], [167], [184], [189], [208], [210];
• the Letters, [15], [19], [32], [46], [47-52], [53-55], [62], [110], [120-127], [147];
• the Epistle to Can Grande, [58], [62], [127], [129], [136], [146], [167], [194];
• the Eclogues, [59], [63], [128], [130-134], [144];
• the Quaestio de Aqua et Terra, [58], [63], [134-135];
• the Divina Commedia, its completion, [59], [60], [62-64];
• publication and diffusion, [64], [65];
• earliest commentators, [64];
• language, [106];
• ethical and mystical, [128], [129];
• letter and allegory, [136-138];
• title, [137];
• metrical structure, [106], [138-139];
• sources, [139-141];
• symbolism of Virgil and Beatrice, [141-143];
• date of composition, [143-145];
• time, [145];
• Inferno, [146-164];
• Purgatorio, [164-192];
• Paradiso, [192-221]
• Abati, Bocca degli, [161]
• —— Durante degli, [10], [24]
• Acquasparta, Cardinal Matteo da, [32-33], [36]
• Adam, [103], [191], [214], [219]
• Adam of Brescia, [160]
• Adimari (Florentine family), [23]
• Adolph of Nassau, [100]
• Adrian IV., Pope, [110]
• —— V., Pope, [178]
• Aeneas, [114], [147], [155], [169], [208]
• Agostino, [205]
• Aguglione, Baldo da, [51]
• Alberigo, Frate 144, [161]
• Albert of Austria, [30], [48], [100]
• Albertus Magnus, [1], [95], [141], [205]
• Aldobrandesco, Omberto, [173]
• Alexander the Great, [115]
• Alighieri, family, [6], [25]
• —— Alighiero di Bellincione (Dante’s father), [6], [9], [14]
• —— Antonia, [23]n., [60]n.
• —— Beatrice, [23]n., [60]n.
• —— Bella, [10]
• —— Brunetto di Bellincione, [7]
• —— Francesco, [10]
• —— Geri del Bello, [7]
• —— Giovanni, [23]n.
• —— Gemma Donati, [23], [58], [60]n., [127], [132]
• —— Jacopo di Dante, [23], [56], [58], [60]n., [64]
• —— Lapa Cialuffi, [10]
• —— Pietro di Dante, [12], [23], [56], [58], [60]n., [64], [127].
• —— Tana, [10]
• Alighiero (son of Cacciaguida), [7]
• Altoviti, Palmieri, [32], [36], [37], [52]
• Anastasius, Pope, [155]
• Anchises, [169], [208]
• Anne, St., [219]
• Anselm, St., [206]
• Antaeus, [161]
• Aquinas, St. Thomas, [1], [5], [80], [141], [150], [151], [152], [155], [172], [192], [205], [206]
• Argenti, Filippo, [154]
• Ariosto, [140]
• Aristotle, [1], [14], [39], [80], [89], [95], [97], [100], [141], [150], [152], [176], [214], [215]
• Arnaut, Daniel, [90], [107], [182]
• Augustine, St., [117], [129], [141], [172], [200], [219], [220]
• Augustus, [109], [113], [115]
• Averroës, [99], [152]
• Beatrice, traditionally identified with Bice Portinari, [12], [13], [14];
• her brother, [15], [78];
• her death, [20];
• Cino’s canzone on, [21];
• Dante’s wanderings from her, [21];
• in Dante’s work, [61], [62];
• in the Vita Nuova, [69-79];
• reference to her in the Convivio, [81], [84], [86], [89], [93], [98], [99], [111];
• her symbolism in the Divina Commedia, [141], [142];
• sends Virgil, [148];
• her part in the Earthly Paradise, [187-191];
• guides Dante through the spheres of Paradise, [194], [199-216];
• her glory in the Empyrean, [218-220]
• Bambaglioli, Graziolo dei, [65], [119]
• Bacci, O., [60]n.
• Barbadoro, B., [32]n.
• Barbi, M., [11], [23]n., [56]n., [82], [83], [93]n., [127]
• Bardi, Simone dei, [12]
• Bartoli, A., [11]
• Battifolle, Countess of, [125]
• Bede, St., [205]
• Becchi, Lippo, [36]
• Belacqua, [168]
• Bella, Giano della, [24], [25], [28]
• Benedict, St., [212], [219]
• —— IX., Pope, [43], [122]
• Benvenuto da Imola, [15], [44], [65], [156], [187]
• Bernard, St., [129], [185], [187], [197], [198], [203], [207], [209], [217-221]
• Bertran de Born, [107]
• Biagi, V., [135]
• Biondo, Flavio, [48], [63], [121]
• Biscaro, G., [133]n.
• Blacatz, [169]
• Boccaccio, [11], [12], [14], [15], [23], [26], [35], [40], [44], [46], [47], [58], [60]n., [63], [65], [69], [74], [83], [101], [102], [109], [112], [118], [121], [122], [127], [130], [132], [144], [151]n.
• Boëthius, [20], [94], [141], [205], [217]
• Bonagiunta, [181]
• Bonaventura, St., [1], [141], [206], [213], [220]
• Boncompagno, [102]n.
• Boniface VIII., Pope, [4], [24-26], [28], [29], [32-35], [36-38], [41-42], [46], [111], [159], [179], [217]
• Branca d’Oria, [144]
• Briareus, [160]
• Brunelleschi, Betto, [22]
• Brunetto di Bellincione. See [Alighieri]
• —— Latini, [14], [89], [97], [157]
• Bruni, Leonardo, [12], [14], [18], [31], [34], [40], [43], [46], [53], [63], [74], [120], [121]
• Brutus, [163]
• Buondelmonte, [6]
• Buoso da Duera, [161]
• Buti, Francesco da, [65]
• Cacciaguida, [6], [7], [29]n., [40], [208], [209]
• Caccianemico, Venedico, [133]n., [145]
• Caesar, [109]
• Cain, [160]
• Calboli, Fulcieri da, [41], [133]n.
• Cammino, Gherardo da, [100]
• Cante de’ Gabrielli, [36]
• Capaneus, [157]
• Carducci, [132]
• Carlo Martello, [27], [204]
• Casella, [15], [21], [87], [167]
• Cassius, [163]
• Cato, [114], [167]
• Cavalcanti, Cavalcante, [155]
• —— Guido, [13], [15], [28], [31], [32], [58], [68], [73], [74], [76], [85], [104], [108], [155]
• Celestine V., St., Pope, [24], [168]
• Cerberus, [153]
• Cerchi, Vieri dei, [19], [27], [30], [40]
• Charlemagne, [110], [116], [209]
• Charles I. of Anjou, [3], [4], [8], [15], [16], [170], [178]
• —— II. of Naples, [18], [27], [32], [49], [178], [204]
• —— of Valois, [33-36], [178]
• Charon, [149], [154]
• Chaucer, [94]
• Christ, [115], [116], [147], [186], [213]
• Ciacco, [144]
• Cicero, [20], [150], [155]
• Cimabue, [6]
• Cincinnatus, [114]
• Cino da Pistoia, [15], [21], [53], [63], [85], [91], [93], [104], [107], [108], [123]
• Cipolla, C., [116]n.
• Clement IV., Pope, [3]
• —— V., Pope, [46], [48], [52], [54], [116]n., [126], [143], [145], [179], [217]
• Clemenza, [204]
• Colet, J. (on Dionysius), [215]
• Colonna, Sciarra, [41]
• Compagni, Dino, [25], [34], [35], [43]
• Conrad III., Emperor, [7]
• Conradin of Suabia, [9]
• Constance, Empress, [2], [201]
• Constance of Aragon, [16]
• Constantine, [109], [116], [210]
• Corazza da Signa, [34]
• Croce, B., [137]
• Curio, [124]
• Cyprus, King of, [210]
• Daniel, [120], [129]
• Dante. See [Alighieri]
• Dante da Maiano, [84]
• David, [120], [173], [210]
• Della Torre, A., [56]n.
• Del Lungo, I, [20]n., [35]n., [45]n.
• Diedati, Gherardino, [34], [36]
• —— Neri, [34]
• Dionysius, [141], [197], [205], [207], [211], [215], [216]
• Dominic, St., [205]
• Donati, Corso, [22], [25], [27], [28], [31], [33], [46], [145], [180], [201]
• —— Forese, [23], [85], [180], [201]
• —— Foresino, [127]
• —— Gemma, See [Alighieri]
• —— Manetto, [23], [24]
• —— Nella, [180]
• —— Niccolò, [127]
• —— Piccarda, [201]
• —— Teruccio, [127]
• —— Ubertino, [23]
• Donatus, Aelius, [206]
• D’Ovidio, F., [139]n.
• Durante, author of the Fiore, [63]
• Elisei (family), [6]
• Ephialtes, [160]
• Eve, [219]
• Federzoni, G., [139]n.
• “Fioretta,” [84]
• Folco, [204]
• Francesca da Rimini, [58], [153], [161]
• Francis, St., [92], [205]
• Frangipani, Cardinal Latino, [16]
• Frederick I., Emperor, [2], [49], [110]
• —— II., Emperor, [2], [3], [4], [6], [8], [9], [48], [100], [104], [109], [155], [170], [201]
• —— of Aragon, [32]
• Gabriel, St., [203], [213], [219]
• Gambara, Gherardino da, [41]
• Gentucca, [55]n.
• Geryon, [158]
• Gherardini, Andrea, [33], [38]
• Gianni, Lapo, [15], [31], [85], [104]
• Giants, the, [160]
• Giotto, [6], [44], [58]
• Giovanna (“Primavera”), [71], [76]
• Giovanni del Virgilio, [56], [59], [63], [130-133]
• Giraut de Borneil, [92], [107]
• Godfrey de Bouillon, [209]
• Gratian, [205]
• Gregory I. (the Great), [99], [197]
• —— VII. (Hildebrand), Pope, [2], [110]
• —— X., Pope, [15]
• Griffin, the mystical, [187], [188], [190]
• Guarnerio, P. E., [139]n.
• Guidi, the Conti, [51], [125]
• Guido, Fra, of Pisa, [64], [127]
• —— Novello da Polenta, [58], [59], [64], [132]
• —— Novello (dei Conti Guidi), [8]
• —— del Duca, [174]
• Guinizelli, Guido, [5], [67], [68], [71], [76], [77], [85], [88], [104], [182]
• Guiscard, Robert, [209]
• Guittone d’Arezzo, [5]
• Hauteville, House of, [2], [16]
• Henry III., King of England, [170]
• —— VI., Emperor, [2]
• —— VII., Emperor, [47-53], [62], [100], [109], [112], [121], [123-125], [130], [143], [179], [217]
• Hezekiah, [210]
• Horace, [140]
• Hugh Capet, [42], [178]
• Hugh of St. Victor, [205]
• Ilario, Frate, [54]
• Illuminato, [205]
• Irnerius, [2]
• Isaiah, [92], [120], [127]
• Isidore, St., of Seville, [154], [205]
• Jacopone da Todi, [176]
• James, St., [214]
• Jeremiah, [20], [120], [127], [146], [215]
• Joachim of Flora, [206]
• John the Baptist, St., [219]
• —— Chrysostom, St., [206]
• —— of Damascus, St., [213]
• John the Evangelist, St., [186], [214], [219]
• —— XXI. (Peter of Spain), Pope, [206]
• —— XXII., Pope, [54], [118], [210]
• —— of Paris, [117]n.
• Joshua, [209]
• Judas Iscariot, [163]
• —— Maccabaeus, [209]
• Judith, [219]
• Justinian, Emperor, [59], [109], [202], [203]
• Juvenal, [140]
• Kipling, Rudyard, [107]n.
• Lacaita, J. P., [65]
• Lana, Jacopo della, [51]
• Leah, [183-186]
• Lippo de’ Bardi, [15]
• “Lisetta,” [93]n.
• Livi, G., [80]n., [92]n., [144]n.
• Livy, [141]
• Louis of Bavaria, [60], [118]
• —— St., of France, [3]
• Lucan, [140], [162], [163], [167], [169]
• Lucia (St. Lucy), [148], [171], [219]
• Lucifer, [149], [150], [160-164]
• Luzzatto, G., [35]n.
• Malaspina (family), [44]
• —— Alagia de’ Fieschi, [178]
• —— Currado, [170]
• —— Franceschino, [45]
• ——Moroello, [123], [151]n., [178]
• Malavolti, Ubaldino, [35]
• Manfred, [3], [4], [8], [16], [104], [168]
• Marco the Lombard, [175]
• Margaret, Empress, [125]
• Martin IV., Pope, [181]
• Mary the Blessed Virgin, [20];
• Beatrice under her banner, [77];
• symbolises Divine Mercy, [148];
• the Queen of Mercy, [170];
• examples of her life, [173], [177], [186], [201], [203];
• her Assumption in the Stellar Heaven, [213];
• her glory in the Empyrean, [219];
• her intercession for Dante, [220]
• Matelda, [74], [184-188], [192], [218]
• Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, [8], [185]
• Mazzini, [104], [114]
• Medusa, [154]
• Mechthild of Hackeborn, [185]
• —— of Magdeburg, [185]
• Merlin, [85]
• Meuccio, [15]
• Milotti, Fiducio dei, [132]
• Minerbetti, Maso, [35]
• Moncetti, G. B., [134]
• Monferrato, Marquis Giovanni of, [108]
• Montefeltro, Buonconte da, [20], [168]
• —— Guido da, [99], [159], [168]
• Moore, E., [20]n., [134], [145], [163]n.
• Moses, [219]
• Musaeus, [169]
• Musciatto Franzesi, [42]
• Mussato, Albertino, [132]
• Nathan, [206]
• Niccolò da Prato, Cardinal, [42], [122]
• —— Pisano, [6]
• Nicholas III., Pope, [15], [158]
• Nogaret, William of, [41]
• Oderisi, [174]
• Ordelaffi, Scarpetta degli, [41], [49]
• Orlandi, Orlanduccio, [37]
• Orlando, [209]
• Orosius, [141], [205]
• Orsini, Cardinal Napoleone, [46], [126]
• Ottimo Commento, the, [22], [35], [64], [185]
• Otto, Emperor, [109]
• Ottocar, [170]
• Ovid, [141]
• Palinurus, [169]
• Parodi, E. G., [63], [143], [191]
• Paul, St., [120], [129], [148], [180], [187]
• Pazzi, Carlino dei, [41], [145]
• Perini, Dino, [58], [131], [151]n.
• Peter, St., Apostle, [187], [213], [215]
• —— of Aragon, [16], [18], [170]
• —— Comestor, [206]
• —— Damian, [212]
• —— of Spain. See [John XXI.]
• ——the Lombard, [205]
• Petrarch, [47], [52], [125], [134]
• Philip the Fair, [32], [42], [178]
• Phlegyas, [154]
• “Pietra,” [22], [89]
• Plato, [94]
• Plotinus, [220]
• Poggetto, Bertrando del, [119]
• Poggi, Andrea, [11], [127], [151]n.
• —— Leone, [10]
• Portinari, Bice. See [Beatrice]
• —— Folco, [12], [15]
• —— Manetto, [15], [57], [78]
• Pucci, Antonio, [134]
• Pythagoras, [85]
• Quirino, Giovanni, [144]
• Rabanus Maurus, [206]
• Rachel, [183], [185], [219]
• Rahab, [204]
• Rajna, P., [138]n.
• Ranieri di Zaccaria, [56]
• Rebecca, [219]
• Renoardo, [209]
• Rhipeus, [152], [210], [211]
• Ricci, C., [133]n.
• Riccomanni, Lapo, [10]
• Richard of St. Victor, [129], [141], [183], [205], [220]
• Robert the Wise, King of Naples, [49], [52], [56], [117]n., [124], [130], [133]n.
• Romano, Cunizza da, [204]
• —— Ezzelino da, [3], [204]
• Romena, Alessandro da, [122]
• —— Oberto and Guido da, [122]
• Romeo, [203]
• Rossetti, [10], [57], [68], [76], [107], [181]
• Rudolph of Hapsburg, [16], [100], [170], [204]
• Ruggieri, Abp., [161]
• Rustico di Filippo, [85]
• Ruth, [219]
• Saladin, [152]
• Salterelli, Lapo, [37]
• Salvani, Provenzano, [9], [174]
• Sapia, [174]
• Sarah, [219]
• Scala, Albuino della, [44], [57]
• —— Bartolommeo della, [43]
• —— Can Grande della, [43], [57], [58], [62], [63], [121], [127], [130], [132], [144], [147], [208]
• Scartazzini, G. A., [11], [13], [21]
• Sennuccio del Bene, [53]
• Serravalle, Giovanni da, [47]
• Shakespeare, [26], [163]
• Shelley, [60], [96], [134], [210], [231]
• Siger, [205], [206]
• Signorelli, Luca, [155]
• Sinon, [160]
• Solomon, [119], [205], [207]
• Sordello, [169], [170]
• Spenser, [107]n.
• Spini (family), [29]
• Statius, [140], [179-183], [186], [189], [192]
• Swinburne, [107]n.
• Tiberius, [115]
• Torraca, F., [45]n., [123]n.
• Tosa, Baschiera della, [43]
• Toynbee, P., [122]n.
• See [Bibliographical Appendix]
• Trajan, [109], [173], [210]
• Tundal, [139], [170]
• Ubaldini, the, [41]
• Uberti, Farinata degli, [8], [155]
• —— Tolosato degli, [43]
• Ugolino, Count, [125], [161]
• Uguccione della Faggiuola, [46], [54-57]
• Ulysses, [160]
• Veltro, the, [93], [147], [191], [203]
• Vernani, Fra Guido, [119]
• Vernon, W. W., [65]
• Vigna, Piero della, [156]
• Villani, F., [11], [60], [127]
• —— G., [9], [11], [17], [29], [46], [102], [121], [125]
• Villari, P., [50]
• Vincent of Beauvais, [180]
• “Violetta,” [84]
• Virgil, [140-143], [147-149], [153-164], [169], [175-188], [211], [218]
• Visconti, Nino, [170]
• Wicksteed, P. H., [95], [98]n.
• William of Orange, [209]
• —— II., King of Sicily, [3], [210]
• Witte, K., [21], [98], [143], [157]
• Zeno, San, Abbot of, [177]

Transcriber’s Notes

[Page 206]: “St. Anslem” changed to “St. Anselm”