Transcriber’s Notes:
Old or antiquated spellings have been preserved.
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate.
Typographical errors have been silently corrected.
The table “TIME REFERENCES IN THE DIVINE COMEDY” on pages 358-366 has been reformatted from horizontal to vertical inorder to better fit the small-screen format.