A Note on Abbreviations

The following frequently cited texts have been abbreviated and are referred to in parentheses. Biblical passages appear with just the italicized book name. Full bibliographical information is found at the end of the volume.

Aen.

Vergil, Aeneid, ed. Goold

CD

Augustine, Città di Dio, eds. Trapè et al.

Con.

Augustine, Confessioni, ed. Pellegrino

Cr.

Villani, Cronica, 1823 ed.

Dign.

Pico della Mirandola, Dignità dell’uomo, ed. Bausi.

DVE

Dante, De vulgari eloquentia, ed. Mengaldo

Inf., Purg., Par.

Dante, Divina Commedia, ed. Chiavacci Leonardi

Fam.

Petrarch, Familiari, ed. Rossi

GL

Augustine, Genesi alla lettera, ed. Carrozzi

Met.

Ovid, Metamorphoses, ed. Goold

Morg.

Pulci, Morgante, ed. Greco

NE

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Ross

OI

Boiardo, Orlando innamorato, ed. Bruscagli

RVF

Petrarch, Lyric Poems, ed. Durling

SN

Vico, Scienza nuova, ed. Nicolini

ST

Aquinas, Summa theologica, eds. de Rubeis et al.

Theb.

Statius, Thebaid, ed. Shackleton Bailey

DV

Mazzotta, Dante’s Vision and the Circle of Knowledge

NMW

Mazzotta, New Map of the World

PD

Mazzotta, Dante, Poet of the Desert

WP

Mazzotta, The Worlds of Petrarch