On the Inferno / Patrick Hunt -- Biography of Dante / Patrick Hunt -- The Paris review perspective / Nicole Rudick for The Paris review -- The love that moves / Robert Pogue Harrison -- The Inferno from a purgatorial (and paradisiacal) perspective / Heather Webb -- Dante's Inferno : critical reception and influence / David Lummus -- Per lo Inferno tuo nome si spande : politics in the infernal city / Elizabeth Coggeshall -- The moral system of the Commedia and the seven capital sins / Robert Hollander -- Canto 1 : the dark wood / Wallace Fowlie -- Aeneas and Dante / David Thompson -- Dante's knowledge of Florentine history / John C. Barnes -- Nature's revenge / Francesca Guerra D'Antoni -- Canto 4 : Limbo (first circle) / Wallace Fowlie -- The portrait of Francesca : Inferno V / John Freccero -- Echoes of Andromache in Inferno X / Joseph Luzzi -- Beginning to think about Salò / Gabrielle Lesperance -- Dante's monsters in the Inferno : reimagining classical to Christian judgment / Patrick Hunt -- Canto 11 : the plan of Hell / Wallace Fowlie -- The harvest of reading : Inferno 20, 24, 26 / Alison Cornish -- Submerged meanings in Dante's similes (Inf. XXVII) / Richard H. Lansing -- Inferno 27 and the perversions of Pentecost / Glending Olson -- Resources -- Chronology of Dante's life -- Works by Dante -- Bibliography.