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Contents About the William and Katherine Devers Series ix Preface xi 1 Introduction: Dante and Classical Poetry 1 2 Vergil in the Inferno 25 3 Lucan and Vergil: Judgment and Poetic Authority in Dis 61 4 Cato’s Grotto 97 5 Ovid and Vergil in Purgatory 117 6 Statius 159 7 Lust, Poetry, and the Earthly Paradise 203 8 Paradiso 227 Bibliography 279 Index of Passages Discussed 291 General Index 295 ...

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