The Divine Comedy | Page 4

Judecca:
Traitors to their Lords and Benefactors. Lucifer,
Judas Iscariot,
Brutus, and Cassius. The Chasm of Lethe. The Ascent.
Purgatorio

I. The Shores of Purgatory. The Four Stars. Cato of Utica.
The Rush.
II. The Celestial Pilot. Casella. The Departure.
III.
Discourse on the Limits of Reason. The Foot of the Mountain.
Those who died in Contumacy of Holy Church. Manfredi. IV. Farther
Ascent. Nature of the Mountain. The Negligent,
who postponed Repentance till the last Hour. Belacqua. V. Those who
died by Violence, but repentant.
Buonconte di Monfeltro. La Pia.
VI. Dante's Inquiry on Prayers for
the Dead. Sordello. Italy. VII. The Valley of Flowers. Negligent
Princes.
VIII. The Guardian Angels and the Serpent. Nino di Gallura.
The Three Stars. Currado Malaspina.
IX. Dante's Dream of the Eagle.
The Gate of Purgatory and
the Angel. Seven P's. The Keys.
X. The Needle's Eye. The First
Circle: The Proud.
The Sculptures on the Wall.
XI. The Humble Prayer. Omberto di
Santafiore.
Oderisi d' Agobbio. Provenzan Salvani.
XII. The Sculptures on the
Pavement. Ascent to the Second Circle. XIII. The Second Circle: The
Envious. Sapia of Siena.
XIV. Guido del Duca and Renier da Calboli.
Cities of
the Arno Valley. Denunciation of Stubbornness.
XV. The Third
Circle: The Irascible. Dante's Visions. The Smoke. XVI. Marco
Lombardo. Lament over the State of the World. XVII. Dante's Dream
of Anger. The Fourth Circle: The Slothful.
Virgil's Discourse of Love.
XVIII. Virgil further discourses of Love
and Free Will.

The Abbot of San Zeno.
XIX. Dante's Dream of the Siren. The Fifth
Circle:
The Avaricious and Prodigal. Pope Adrian V.
XX. Hugh Capet.
Corruption of the French Crown.
Prophecy of the Abduction of Pope Boniface VIII and the Sacrilege of
Philip the Fair. The Earthquake.
XXI. The Poet Statius. Praise of
Virgil.
XXII. Statius' Denunciation of Avarice. The Sixth Circle:
The Gluttonous. The Mystic Tree.
XXIII. Forese. Reproof of
immodest Florentine Women.
XXIV. Buonagiunta da Lucca. Pope
Martin IV, and others.
Inquiry into the State of Poetry.
XXV. Discourse of Statius on
Generation. The Seventh Circle:
The Wanton.
XXVI. Sodomites. Guido Guinicelli and Arnaldo
Daniello.
XXVII. The Wall of Fire and the Angel of God. Dante's
Sleep
upon the Stairway, and his Dream of Leah and Rachel. Arrival at the
Terrestrial Paradise.
XXVIII. The River Lethe. Matilda. The Nature
of
the Terrestrial Paradise.
XXIX. The Triumph of the Church.
XXX.
Virgil's Departure. Beatrice. Dante's Shame.
XXXI. Reproaches of
Beatrice and Confession of Dante.
The Passage of Lethe. The Seven Virtues. The Griffon. XXXII. The
Tree of Knowledge. Allegory of the Chariot.
XXXIII. Lament over
the State of the Church. Final Reproaches
of Beatrice. The River Eunoe.
Paradiso

I. The Ascent to the First Heaven. The Sphere of Fire. II. The First
Heaven, the Moon: Spirits who, having taken
Sacred Vows, were forced to violate them. The Lunar Spots. III.
Piccarda Donati and the Empress Constance.
IV. Questionings of the
Soul and of Broken Vows.
V. Discourse of Beatrice on Vows and
Compensations.
Ascent to the Second Heaven, Mercury: Spirits who for the Love of
Fame achieved great Deeds.
VI. Justinian. The Roman Eagle. The
Empire. Romeo.
VII. Beatrice's Discourse of the Crucifixion, the
Incarnation,
the Immortality of the Soul, and the Resurrection of the Body. VIII.
Ascent to the Third Heaven, Venus: Lovers. Charles Martel.
Discourse on diverse Natures.
IX. Cunizza da Romano, Folco of
Marseilles, and Rahab.
Neglect of the Holy Land.
X. The Fourth Heaven, the Sun:
Theologians and Fathers of
the Church. The First Circle. St. Thomas of Aquinas. XI. St. Thomas
recounts the Life of St. Francis. Lament over
the State of the Dominican Order.
XII. St. Buonaventura recounts the
Life of St. Dominic. Lament
over the State of the Franciscan Order. The Second Circle. XIII. Of the
Wisdom of Solomon. St. Thomas reproaches
Dante's Judgement.
XIV. The Third Circle. Discourse on the
Resurrection of the Flesh.
The Fifth Heaven, Mars: Martyrs and Crusaders who died fighting for
the true Faith. The Celestial Cross.
XV. Cacciaguida. Florence in the
Olden Time.
XVI. Dante's Noble Ancestry. Cacciaguida's Discourse

of
the Great Florentines.
XVII. Cacciaguida's Prophecy of Dante's
Banishment.
XVIII. The Sixth Heaven, Jupiter: Righteous Kings and
Rulers.
The Celestial Eagle. Dante's Invectives against
ecclesiastical Avarice.

XIX. The Eagle discourses of Salvation, Faith, and Virtue.
Condemnation of the vile Kings of A.D. 1300.
XX. The Eagle praises
the Righteous Kings of old.
Benevolence of the Divine Will.
XXI. The Seventh Heaven, Saturn:
The Contemplative.
The Celestial Stairway. St. Peter Damiano. His Invectives against the
Luxury of the Prelates.
XXII. St. Benedict. His Lamentation over the
Corruption of Monks.
The Eighth Heaven, the Fixed Stars.
XXIII. The Triumph of Christ.
The Virgin Mary. The Apostles.
Gabriel.
XXIV. The Radiant Wheel. St. Peter examines Dante on
Faith. XXV. The Laurel Crown. St. James examines Dante on Hope.
Dante's Blindness.
XXVI. St. John examines Dante on Charity.
Dante's Sight. Adam. XXVII. St. Peter's reproof of bad Popes. The
Ascent to
the Ninth Heaven, the 'Primum Mobile.'
XXVIII. God and the
Angelic Hierarchies.
XXIX. Beatrice's Discourse of the Creation of
the Angels,
and of the Fall of Lucifer.