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TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGB I. Dbdicatoby Sonnets v-vii II. Pbeface ix-xx IIL List of Abbreviated References xxv Xife of Dante* Introduction xxxi L Home and Early Boyhood xxxiv 11. The Great Trilogy.— <L) The Vita Nuova . . . . xlv IIL The Great Trilogy.— (11.) Married and Public Life . . 11 IV. The Great Trilogy.— (III. A.) Conflict and Defeat . . . Ixvii V. The Great Trilogy.— (IILa) The Suflferings of the Exile Ixxix VL The Great Trilogy.— (III. c.) The Dream and the Awakening xciii YII. Wanderings and Death ' ex Note on Inner*8 Die Bomfahrt des Kaiser HeinruJCa VIL cxxviii -Den. CANTO L The Wild Wood— The Bewildered Traveller— The Mountain Delectable — The Three Beasts of Prey — Virgil to the Rescue — Prophecy of the Greyhound . . . . i IL The Pilgrim's Doubts — The Three Blessed Ladies in Paradise — The Journey Resumed 7 IIL The Gate of Hell — The Company of the Neatrals — Charon and his Passengers 13 IV. The First Circle— The Limbo of Infants— The Dwellers in the Ely sian Fields 18 V. The Second Circle — Sins of the Flesh— Paolo and Francesca . 24 VL The Third Circle— Cerberus— Sin of Gluttony— Ciacco . . 30 VIL Plutus — The Fourth Circle — Sins of Avarice and Profusion — Fortune and her Wheel— The Fifth Circle— The Mur- murers 34 VIIL Phlegyas— The City of Dis and its Inhabitants— Filippo Argent! — ^The Closed Gates 39