| Biographical Note | p. V |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| A Note on the Text | p. XXV |
| p. 3 |
| The Dark Forest | |
| The Hill of Difficulty | |
| The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf | |
| Virgil | |
| p. 8 |
| Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal | |
| The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight | |
| p. 13 |
| The Gate of Hell | |
| The Inefficient or Indifferent | |
| Pope Celestine V | |
| The Shores of Acheron | |
| Charon | |
| The Earthquake and the Swoon | |
| p. 18 |
| The First Circle | |
| Limbo, or the Border Land of the Unbaptized | |
| The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan | |
| The Noble Castle of Philosophy | |
| p. 23 |
| The Second Circle | |
| Minos | |
| The Wanton | |
| The Infernal Hurricane | |
| Francesca da Rimini | |
| p. 28 |
| The Third Circle | |
| Cerberus | |
| The Gluttonous | |
| The Eternal Rain | |
| Ciacco | |
| p. 32 |
| The Fourth Circle | |
| Plutus | |
| The Avaricious and the Prodigal | |
| Fortune and her Wheel | |
| The Fifth Circle | |
| Styx | |
| The Irascible and the Sullen | |
| p. 37 |
| Phlegyas | |
| Philippo Argenti | |
| The Gate of the City of Dis | |
| p. 42 |
| The Furies | |
| The Angel | |
| The City of Dis | |
| The Sixth Circle | |
| Heresiarchs | |
| p. 47 |
| Farinata and Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti | |
| p. 52 |
| Pope Anastasius | |
| General Description of the Inferno and its Divisions | |
| p. 56 |
| The Minotaur | |
| The Seventh Circle | |
| The Violent | |
| Phlegethon | |
| The Violent against their Neighbors | |
| The Centaurs | |
| Tyrants | |
| p. 61 |
| The Wood of Thorns | |
| The Harpies | |
| The Violent against themselves | |
| Suicides | |
| Pier della Vigna | |
| Lano and Jacopo da Sant' Andrea | |
| p. 66 |
| The Sand Waste | |
| The Violent against God | |
| Capaneus | |
| The Statue of Time, and the Four Infernal Rivers | |
| p. 71 |
| The Violent against Nature | |
| Brunetto Latini | |
| p. 75 |
| Guidoguerra, Aldobrandi, and Rusticucci | |
| Cataract of the River of Blood | |
| p. 80 |
| Geryon | |
| The Violent against Art | |
| Usurers | |
| Descent into the Abyss of Malebolge | |
| p. 85 |
| The Eighth Circle: Malebolge | |
| The Fraudulent | |
| The First Bolgia: Seducers and Panders | |
| Venedico Caccianimico | |
| Jason | |
| The Second Bolgia: Flatterers | |
| Allessio Interminelli | |
| Thais | |
| p. 90 |
| The Third Bolgia: the Simoniacs | |
| Pope Nicholas III | |
| p. 95 |
| The Fourth Bolgia: Soothsayers | |
| Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Arunas, Manto, Eryphylus, Michael Scott, Guido Bonatti, and Asdente | |
| p. 100 |
| The Fifth Bolgia: Peculators | |
| The Elder of Santa Zita | |
| Malebranche | |
| p. 105 |
| Ciampolo, Friar Gomita, and Michael Zanche | |
| p. 110 |
| The Sixth Bolgia: Hypocrites | |
| Catalano and Loderingo | |
| Caiaphas | |
| p. 115 |
| The Seventh Bolgia: Thieves | |
| Vanni Fucci | |
| p. 120 |
| Agnello Brunelleschi, Buoso degli Abati, Puccio Sciancato, Cianfa de' Donati, and Guercio Cavalcanti | |
| p. 125 |
| The Eighth Bolgia: Evil Counsellors | |
| Ulysses and Diomed | |
| p. 130 |
| Guido da Montefeltro | |
| p. 135 |
| The Ninth Bolgia: Schismatics | |
| Mahomet and Ali | |
| Pier da Medicina, Curio, Mosca, and Bertrand de Born | |
| p. 140 |
| The Tenth Bolgia: Alchemists | |
| Griffolino d' Arezzo and Capocchio | |
| p. 145 |
| Other Falsifiers or Forgers | |
| Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha, Adam of Brescia, Potiphar's Wife, and Sinon of Troy | |
| p. 150 |
| The Giants, Nimrod, Ephialtes, and Antaeus | |
| p. 155 |
| The Ninth Circle: the Frozen Lake of Cocytus | |
| First Division, Caina: Traitors to their Kindred | |
| Camicion de' Pazzi | |
| Second Division, Antenora: Traitors to their Country | |
| Bocca degli Abati and Buoso da Duera | |
| p. 160 |
| Count Ugolino and the Archbishop Ruggieri | |
| Third Division of the Ninth Circle, Ptolomaea: Traitors to their Friends | |
| Friar Alberigo, Branco d' Oria | |
| p. 165 |
| Fourth Division of the Ninth Circle, the Judecca; Traitors to their Lords and Benefactors | |
| Lucifer, Judas Iscariot, Brutus and Cassius | |
| Notes | p. 171 |
| Illustrations | |
| L' Ottimo Comento | p. 325 |
| Villani's Notice of Dante | p. 325 |
| Letter of Frate Ilario | p. 326 |
| Passage from the Convito | p. 327 |
| Dante's Letter to a Friend | p. 328 |
| Portraits of Dante | p. 329 |
| Boccaccio's Account of the Commedia | p. 335 |
| The Posthumous Dante | p. 338 |
| The Scholastic Philosophy | p. 341 |
| Homer's Odyssey, Book XI | p. 344 |
| Virgil's AEneid, Book VI | p. 355 |
| Cicero's Vision of Scipio | p. 368 |
| Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven | p. 373 |
| The Vision of Frate Alberico | p. 377 |
| The Vision of Walkelin | p. 379 |
| From the Life of St. Brandan | p. 385 |
| Icelandic Vision | p. 389 |
| Anglo-Saxon Description of Paradise | p. 393 |
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