Authors: Dante
Ezechiel,
XVIII.29
;
XXXI.13–15
;
XXXII.37–39
;
XXXIII.144
Daniel,
IV.13–15
;
X.40–42
;
XXIX.133–135
;
XXX.61
;
XXXI.13–15
Amos,
XXVI.76
Malachi,
XIX.87
;
XXXII.67–75
Matthew,
I.11
;
III.100–102
;
IX.118–119
;
X.109–114
,
144
;
XII.74–75
,
118–120
;
XIV.106
,
108
;
XV.88–89
;
XVII.121–122
;
XVIII.29
,
122–124
;
XIX.14–15
,
109–114
;
XX.94–96
;
XXII.151
;
XXIII.133
;
XXIV.1
,
22
,
34–36
,
39
,
108
,
139–147
;
XXV.28–33
;
XXVII.55–57
;
XXIX.97–102
;
XXXI.12
,
13–15
;
XXXII.11–12
,
31
,
32–33
Mark,
III.102
;
XII.76–78
;
XV.32–33
,
88–89
;
XXIV.22
;
XXIX.97–102
Luke,
III.85
,
100–102
;
VII.20–21
;
X.106–108
;
XII.58–60
;
XV.88–89
;
XVII.27
,
89–90
;
XVIII.122–124
;
XIX.70–78
;
XXI.84
,
129
;
XXII.151
;
XXIV.1
,
22
,
124–126
,
136
,
139–147
,
148–150
;
XXV.28–33
,
89–96
;
XXVII.148
;
XXIX.97–102
;
XXX.49
,
129
;
XXXII.32–33
;
XXXIII.7
John,
VII.39
;
XVII.31–36
;
XXI.127–128
;
XXIV.52–57
,
124–138
,
124–126
,
139–147
;
XXV.112–114
;
XXVI.44
,
64–66
;
XXXI.64
Acts,
VII.6
;
X.115–117
;
XV.32–33
;
XVIII.122–124
;
XX.67–72
;
XXII.88
;
XXV.82–87
,
136–139
;
XXVI.9–12
,
80
;
XXX.49
,
129
;
XXXI.2–3
;
XXXIII.139–141
Romans,
XIX.79–90
,
79–81
,
88–90
;
XXVIII.130–135
I Corinthians,
VII.145–148
;
XIX.7–12
;
XXI.129
;
XXIII.37–39
;
XXVI.6
;
XXVIII.136–139
;
XXX.129
II Corinthians,
I.4–6
,
73
;
XXIV.139–147
Ephesians,
III.85
;
XXVIII.130–135
Philippians,
XXXIII.127–132
,
131
Colossians,
XIV.83
;
XXVIII.130–135
Hebrews,
IX.118–119
;
XIV.83
;
XXIV.64–66
I Peter,
XXIV.139–147
I John,
XXIV.139–147
James,
IX.118–119
;
XXII.64
;
XXV.13–15
,
28–33
,
73–78
,
94–96
Apocalypse,
XI.53–54
;
XV.50
;
XVII.91–93
,
130–132
;
XIX.10
,
113
;
XXIII.19–21
;
XXIV.1
;
XXV.89–96
,
94–96
,
127–129
;
XXVI.16–18
,
44
,
53
,
67–69
;
XXIX.133–135
;
XXX.61
,
95–99
biblical provenance of three archangels,
IV.46–48
,
48
blindness,
IV.139–142
;
XXV.118–121
;
XXVI.9–12
,
80
Boccaccio, Giovanni,
IV.48
;
X.99
;
XV.118–120
,
127–129
;
XVI.50
;
XVII.111
;
XXII.133–153
;
XXIV.115
;
XXIX.94–96
,
103–108
Boethius,
I.74
;
II.4–6
;
VI.25–27
;
VII.64–65
;
VIII.40–41
;
X.121–129
,
128
;
XII.7–8
;
XIII.59
;
XV.145–148
;
XVI.1–9
;
XVII.24
,
130–132
;
XIX.85
;
XX.67–72
;
XXI.28–30
;
XXII.1
,
133–153
,
151
;
XXIII.74
;
XXVIII.55–57
,
79–87
;
XXXI.30
;
XXXIII.28–33
,
144
Bonaventure, St.,
XI.53–54
,
88–93
;
XII.127–128
;
XXVI.9–12
;
XXVII.109
,
136–138
;
XXVIII.104
;
XXIX.70–81
;
XXX.61
;
XXXII.139
;
XXXIII.97
,
139–141
Boncampagno da Signa,
XXXII.140–141
Boniface VIII (pope),
IX.137–142
;
XII.87
,
88–90
;
XV.127–129
;
XVII.49–51
,
52–54
,
97–99
;
XXII.13–15
;
XXVII.22–24
,
25–27
,
46–48
,
49–51
Bonvesin de la Riva,
XX.103–105
“Book of Life,”
XIX.113
Brunetto Latini,
I.46–48
;
VI.4–6
;
X.109–114
;
XVI.42
;
XVII.24
,
119
,
121–122
;
XXV.28–33
;
XXVIII.79–87
,
130–135
Buridan’s ass,
V.1–3
Cacciaguida’s self-narrative, longest in canticle,
XV.130–148
Callisto,
XXXI.32–33
Cangrande della Scala,
IX.46–48
;
XVII.70–71
,
76–90
,
78
,
79–81
,
82–84
,
85
,
89–90
,
91–93
,
94–96
;
XVIII.130
.
cantilena
(sacred song),
XXXII.97
canto
, meanings of,
I.12
cantos:
beginning with spoken words,
V.1
;
VII.1
;
XXXIII.1
beginnings and endings of,
III.124–130
lengthy openings of,
VIII.1–12
;
XIII.1–24
capestro
and
corda
, words for cincture worn by friars,
XI.87
cappuccio
(cowl),
XXIX.117
Cato the Younger,
XXXI.25–27
Cavalcanti, Guido,
I.10
;
V.7
;
VII.14
;
IX.25–36
;
X.133–138
;
XXVI.42
;
XXVII.67–72
;
XXXIII.116–120
Cecco Angiolieri,
IX.96
;
XXVII.130–135
Celestine V (pope),
III.35–36
;
IX.133–135
;
X.99
;
XI.58–60
Cervantes,
XIII.2–3
Charlemagne,
VI.94–96
;
XVII.91–93
;
XVIII.37–51
,
43
,
46
;
XX.37–72
;
XXXI.127
Chaucer,
I.13
;
XIX.10
;
XXII.133–153
;
XXXIII.15
chiasmus
(rhetorical figure),
VI.10
;
VII.46–48
;
XIV.40–51
;
XX.98–99
,
103–105
Christ:
and Mary (and no others) in Heaven in body,
XXV.122–129
as Apollo,
I.13–15
as conquering death,
XIV.127–129
as direct creation of God,
XIII.43–48
as harvesting the saints,
XXIII.19–21
as “husband,”
III.100–102
;
XIV.36
as “justly” punished,
VI.82–91
,
88–90
,
92–93
;
VII.19–24
,
34–45
as model for Beatrice’s descent into Hell,
XXXI.79–81
,
85
as pelican,
XXV.112–114
as present to Dante in the Starry Sphere,
XXIII.25–30
,
31–33
,
37–39
being “sold” by the Roman clergy,
XVII.49–51
,
51
belief in Him necessary for salvation,
XIX.103–105
;
XX.67–72
,
103–105
Francis as a “second Christ,”
XI.28–36
imitation of,
XI.61–63
phoenix, as symbol of,
XXIII.1–12
stupefaction of those witnessing the Transfiguration,
XV.32–33
those He harrowed from Hell as having gone directly to Heaven,
VIII.119–123
three visions of (in
Paradiso
),
XIV.108
wound in side and Adam’s rib,
XIII.37–42
,
40–41
Church as chariot of war,
XII.106–111
;
XX.127–129
Cicero,
1.78
;
V.64–72
;
VIII.40–41
;
XV.107–108
;
XVII.24
;
XVIII.115–117
;
XXII.133–153
Circe,
XXVII.136–138
circumcision,
XXXII.40–48
,
43
,
79
Clement V (pope),
VIII.76–78
;
XVII.82–84
;
XXII.13–15
;
XXVII.22–24
,
58–60
clock, mechanical,
X.139–148
coelum Trinitatis
(the heaven of the Trinity),
XXXI.12
concetto
(concept),
XV.40–42
;
XVIII.82–87
;
XXXIII.67–75
,
127
conforto
(comfort), noun used of Virgil and of Beatrice,
XVIII.8
Constantine (emperor),
VI.2–3
;
IX.1–6
;
XX.55–60
;
XXIII.1–12
;
XXXI.127
contemplation, three stages of in Richard of St. Victor,
XXXII.8
contingency,
XIII.61–66
;
XVII.13–18
,
37
;
XVIII.3
;
XXV.1
corda
(cord),
XXVIII.12
correction/perfection of will/intellect,
IV.136–138
cortese
(courtly), meaning transformed by heavenly context,
XV.48
costrutto
(construct),
XII.67
;
XXIII.24
creation, primary and secondary,
VII.67
,
72
,
124–138
;
XIII.79–87
crudo
(cruel),
XII.57
Curio,
VI.61–63
Daedalus,
VIII.122–126
;
XIII.67–78
;
XV.54
,
72
;
XXV.49–51
;
XXXII.145–148
Dante:
and the Exodus,
XXV.52–57
;
XXVI.62–63
and the hypersphere,
XXVII.109
and the
Libro della scala
,
XXVIII.91–93
and Thomas Aquinas,
X.99
as Arachne,
I.20–21
as avoiding pride,
I.34
as babe,
XXX.82–90
as behaving childishly,
III.25–28
as called to prophecy,
XXVII.64–66
as comic poet with tragic reach,
XVII.133–134
;
XXXIII.19–20
as David,
XX.40–42
as drunk,
XXVII.1–3
as having broken a vow,
IV.139–142
as Hippolytus (alias Virbius),
XVII.46
as hopeful,
XXV.97–99
as humble,
XI.64–66
as Nebuchadnezzar,
IV.13–15
as not speaking,
VII.124–129
;
IX.73–81
as poet of empire,
1.29
;
VII.4–5
as present in the heavens in the flesh,
I.4–6
,
73
,
79–81
;
II.37–45
;
VIII.13–15
;
XV.30
;
XXII.129
;
XXVII.64–66
,
85–87
as rigorist in interpreting vows,
V.25–33
as scribe,
V.85
;
X.27
;
XX.30
;
XXIV.31–33
,
61
;
XXV.2
,
25
,
127–129
as self-conscious, playful writer,
V.16–17
,
122–123
;
XVII.127–129
as Solomon,
X.109–114
as Thomist or Franciscan?
XXVIII.72
,
109–111
as Uzzah,
I.20–21
bidding farewell to Verona,
XVII.142
details of his daily life,
XXIII.88–89
“fathers” of,
XV.25–27
;
XVI.16
;
XXXI.63
;
XXXII.100–102
his hopes for renewed crusading,
IX.137–142
his name appearing only once,
XXVI.104
his theory of the physics of light,
XII.9
;
XXIII.82–84
;
XXXI.94–99
;
XXXIII.52–54
his vernacular as mother’s milk,
XXIII.121–126
imperial hopes of,
XVII.91–93
palinode of earlier work,
VIII.34–39
,
39
,
40–41
;
IX.61–63
;
XVIII.91–93
;
XXVII.148