Table of Contents:
  • Why this book has been written
  • Rome
  • Dante's Florence 1260
  • Gemma Donati and Beatrice Portinari
  • Dante's education
  • A new constitution for Florence and the Sicilian vespers
  • Late teens, the dream
  • A poet's apprenticeship
  • The warrior who fought at Campaldino
  • Death of Beatrice
  • The consolation of philosophy
  • The dark wood
  • Dante and the painted word. Giotto at Padua
  • The common tongue
  • Medieval autobiography
  • Dante in love with a woman in Casentino. The origins of The comedy
  • Crown imperial
  • Dante in love again with Beatrice
  • Ravenna and Venice
  • In paradisum
  • Dante's afterlife.