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CONTENTS Preface ix The INFERNO, translated by Mark Musa / 3 Critical Essays Read It and (Don't) Weep: Textual Irony in the Inferno, 253 BY LAWRENCE BALDASSARO Dante's Beloved Yet Damned Virgil, BY GUY P. RAFFA Inferno I: Breaking the Silence, BY DENISE HEILBRONN-GAINES Dante's Inferno, Canto IY, BY AMILCARE A. IANNUCCI Behold Francesca Who Speaks So Well (Inferno V), BY MARK MUSA Iconographic Parody in Inferno XXI, BY CHRISTOPHER KLEINHENZ 266 286 299 310 325 Virgil and Dante as Mind-Readers (Inferno XXI and XXIII), 340 BY ROBERT HOLLANDER vii The Plot-Line of Myth in Dante's Inferno, BY RICARDO J. QUINONES Hell as the Mirror Image of Paradise, BY JOAN M. FE"RRANTE 353 Dante in the Cinematic Mode: An Historical Survey of 381 Dante Movies, BY JOHN P. WELLE Selected Biblio9raphy: Inferno 397 Contributors 399 Index 401 viii I CONTENTS ...

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