by A. N. Wilson
translations 11
as unfinished 300–1
and vision of God 302, 303–15, 324, 333–4
Paris, population 45
Paris, University 21, 119, 326
ban on Aristotle 155, 238
and Islamic scholarship 26
Paul IV, Pope (1555–9) 317
Paul, St, and ecstasy 159–60, 161–2
use of allegory 83
Pedro III of Aragon 77
Perini, Ser Dino 294, 295
Peruzzi family 187
Peter Damian 305
Peter the Martyr (Peter of Verona) 94
Peter, St 306
Petrarch, Francesco 96–7, 318
and terzarima 245, 319
Petrus Hibernicus 158
Philip, Count of Poitiers (later Philip V of France) 289
Philip IV ‘the Fair’ of France 183
and Holy Roman Empire 265–6
and Papacy 30, 31, 172, 186–9, 277
Philippe of Novara, Mémoires 232–3
philosophy 5–6
and Boethius 151–3, 234, 236
Dante’s studies 68, 120, 142, 151–4, 158–9, 170
donna gentile as 138–42, 164–5, 236, 243, 248
Islamic 15, 110, 145, 156, 237
and knowledge of God 234–8
and love 9–10, 12, 76, 164–5, 241
as love of wisdom 234
and politics 167–8, 172
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni 108, 318
Pietro Alighieri (son of Dante) 137, 243–4, 294–5, 300
Pietro del Morrone see Celestine V
Pilgrimage, and Purgatory 22–3
to Rome 14, 15–20, 24, 30, 257–8, 272
Pinsky, Robert 337
Pipini, Francesco, Chronicon 214
Pisa, and Ghibellines 122, 123, 267–8, 275
Pius IX, Pope (1847–78) 299, 327
and Immaculate Conception 311
planets 147, 148–9, 171–2
Plato, Republic 168
Symposium 108
Timaeus 153
Plato of Tivoli 145
Platonism, of Dante 108, 239, 241, 250–1
podestà of Florence 36, 46, 51, 57, 174
poetry, autobiographical 244
of Cavalcanti 105–10, 113–14, 178–80, 182
concern with sexuality 8
and Courtly Love 81, 86–7, 95–100, 107–10, 170
of Dante, Alpine Ode 244–9,
youthful 81, 105–17, 129–30, 164
and New Sweet Style 111, 234
and politics 8
and religious faith 8
Tuscan school 86–8
Polenta, Guido il Vecchio 294
Polenta, Guido Novello da 293, 294, 298–9
politics, and Dante 8, 31–6, 48, 76, 116, 163, 169–91
and law 168–9
and love 170–1, 304, 340
and Papacy 24–5, 169
and philosophy 167–8, 172
and poetry 8
and Thomas Aquinas 163
see also Florence; Ghibellines; Guelfs
popolo of Florence 42–3, 47, 58, 124, 173, 266
Portinari, Beatrice (Bice)
as allegory of faith and grace 85, 139, 236, 252, 307
as Christ-figure 130–1
death 107, 113, 129–35, 136–7, 151
as Divine Love 114, 252
and donna gentile 137–9, 141, 164, 165, 171, 217, 248
in Empyrean 140, 164, 333
first encounter with Dante Fig. 2, 64–6, 73, 103
as guide in Paradise 303, 305–6, 333
as historical figure 141–2
idealization 96, 107, 136, 170–1, 249, 332
marriage 66, 173
second encounter with 101–3
as symbol of theology 133, 137–8, 164
Portinari, Folco 64
Pouget, Cardinal Bertrand de 317
Pound, Ezra 108, 114, 116–17, 163, 199, 250, 331, 334, 339
Poverty, Holy 194, 196, 197–8, 304–5
Powell, Enoch 8–9
prayer for the dead 21, 127, 255–6
Primum Mobile 132, 140, 148, 333
Proust, Marcel 96, 105, 202–3
Pseudo-Brunetto Latini 42
Ptolemy, Claudius 144–5, 147
Ptolemy of Lucca 25
Pucci, Antonio, Centiloquio 208
Purgatorio, and Arnaut Daniel 96–7, 100, 116–17
and astrology 148
as autobiographical allegory 70
and Buonconte da Montefeltro 127–8, 244
and Corso Donati 186
date 271
and Holy Year 19, 283
and numerology 269–71
and Rome as widow 271–2, 287
and sodomites 69, 95–6
translations 321
Purgatory, doctrine 21–2, 35, 256–9
and pilgrimage 22–3
Quadrivium 142–4, 158, 352 n.6
Ragg, Lonsdale 17, 23, 200–1, 204, 345 n.5b, 346 n.15, 348 n.7
Ramayana 254
Ramm, Agatha 325, 326
Ranke, Leopold von 328
Rappaccini, Luisa 5
Ravenna, Dante in exile in 291–7, 300, 319
and death of Dante 298–9
mosaics 292–3
and Venice 296–8
Raymond VI of Toulouse (r.1194–1222 92
Raymond VII of Toulouse (r.1222–49) 93
realism, in art and literature 202–6, 251
reason, and faith 150–1, 237–8, 305–6
and love 110, 164–5, 180, 237
and sex 137
recognition device 58, 95
religion, 13th-century codification 21
and Love 10, 12–13, 65, 100, 114, 338
Remigio de’Girolami 159
resurrection, as allegory 84
denial 155
and dualism 90
Reynolds, Barbara 11, 111, 113, 129, 269–70, 350–1 n.4
Riccardo di San Bonifazio, Count 249
Richard of St Victor, De Contemplatione 312
Richmond, William Blake 352
Rimbaud, Jean Nicolas Arthur 86
Rimini, Francesca da see Paolo and Francesca
Robert of Anjou, King of Naples (r.1309–43) 172, 267, 272–3, 275, 276, 277, 296
Rogers, Samuel 324
Rolle, Richard 235
Roman Empire, and loss of Greek learning 145–6
role in Divine Providence 304
Romance languages 117, 220–6
The Romance of the Rose 81–2, 85
Rome, Arch of Titus 20–1
Dante in 14–37
and Easter pilgrimage 1300 14, 15–20, 24, 30, 34, 201, 272
and Henry VII 275
and Papacy 54–5
Santa Maria sopre Minerva 24
size 45
tower-fortresses 39
and Vera Icon 18–19, 201–2
see also Boniface VIII; Papacy
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 107, 113–14, 163, 285–6, 327–8
Rossetti, Gabriele 323–4
Rossi, Amilcare 220
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Confessions 231–2
Rudolph of Habsburg, King of Germany 55, 76
Ruggieri degli Ubaldini, Archbishop of Pisa 210–12
Runciman, Steven 44, 78, 347 n.10, 348 n.6
Ruskin, John 205–6, 322, 328
Russell, Lord John 324
Ryan, Christopher 227
Salimbene di Adam, Chronicle 74, 268, 297
Salve Regina (prayer) 309–10
San Gimignano, tower-fortresses 39
sanctification, journey of 61, 154, 162, 182, 233, 252, 261, 306
Sayers, Dorothy L. 11, 322
scepticism, and Berkeley 161, 162
Schevill, Ferdinand 276–7
Schwartz, Berthold 93
scripta 224–5
Scrovegni, Enrico 199–200, 207
Scrovegni, Rinaldodegli 199–200, 20
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self-consciousness, and Comedy 35, 103
Seuse (Soso), Heinrich 235
sexuality, and Cathars 90–1, 95–6, 100–1
and the Church 100–1, 114
homosexuality 69–72, 95–6, 98, 101
and Love 10, 114–15
and Tantrism 91
Shakespeare, William 105, 116
Sicilian Vespers 31, 77–9
Sicily see Charles of Anjou; Charles II ‘the Lame’ of Anjou; Robert of Anjou
Siena, annual palio 281
Palazzo Pubblico, frescoes 167–8
Siger of Brabant 156
Simon IV de Montfort, Seigneur de Montfortl’Amaury, 5th Earl of Leicester 92–3
Sismonde de Sismondi, Jean Charles Léonard 219–20, 227
sodomy/sodomites see homosexuality Soranzo, Giovanni, Doge of Venice 297–8
Sordello da Goito (troubadour poet) 249–50, 304, 313
Sosigenes (Alexandrian astronomer) 146
soul, immortality 68, 110, 176–7, 183, 238, 248, 255
Spanish, and Latin 225
Spenser, Edmund 153
spheres (heavens) 147–8
Stange, Carl 350 n.2b
stars, in Comedy 143–4, 147–9, 316
Stellatum 147–8
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) 320
Stephen, Sir Leslie 208
Stevens, Wallace 80
Sudarium 18, 201–2
Swinburne, Algernon Charles 117
symbolism, number 131–3, 142, 269–71
Symonds, J. A. 220
tantrism 90–1
Tasso, Torquato, Gerusalemme liberata 318
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 150, 259, 322
Teresa of Avila, St 234
Tertullian of Carthage 238
terza rima 245, 280, 319, 322, 337
Theodoric the Ostrogoth (d.526) 151–2, 292, 293
theology, Beatrice as symbol of 133, 137–8
Thomas of Celano 196, 348 n.1c
Thomas of Lentini 256–7
Tino da Camaino 277
Toynbee, Paget 69
Tristan and Iseult story 86
Trivium 142, 158, 352 n.6
troubadours, and Courtly Love 85, 86–8, 90, 96–7, 107, 110, 249
Tuscany, and Courtly Love poets 86–8, 100, 107
Uberti, Farinatadegli 46–7, 49, 75, 176–7, 181, 185
Uberti, Lapodegli 185
Ubertino, Guglielmodegli, Bishop of Arezzo 123–6
Ugolinodella Gherardesca, Count 121, 210–12
Ulysses (Odysseus), in Inferno 150–1, 238, 259, Fig. 8
universe, medieval picture 147–9
universities, in Italy 118–19
usury 50–1, 157, 199–200, 207, 229
Vasari, Giorgio 208
veiling of women 74–5
Venice, population 45
and Ravenna 296–8
S. Marco mosaics Fig. 21
Venturini, Domenico 220, 228, 354 n.12a
Vere-Hodge, H. S. 248, 354 n.2b
Vernani, Guido 317
Vernon, W. W. 10–11, 262
Verona, annual palio 281–2
Dante in exile in 184, 191, 264, 277, 281, 284–90, 291
population 282
Verona Chronicle 284
Veronica legend 18–19, 201–2
Victoria, Queen 327
Villani, Giovanni, Chronicle 42, 56, 67, 157, 178, 186, 207–8, 214, 297–8
Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro), Aeneid 146, 253–6
as Dante’s mentor and guide 251–5, 260, 279, 303, 308
Eclogues 253
and Inferno 209, 253–5, 263–4
Virgin Mary, cult of 95, 96, 309–10, 332–3
in Paradiso 312–14
Vita Nuova 11–12, 243, 327
and Beatrice 1, 132, 134, 138, 163–5
and donna gentile 135, 136–40, 243, 248
ending 134, 139–40, 240–1
and Florence 65–6, 138
and Guinizelli 87
and Il Convivio 139–40, 164, 236
as modern 163–4
and vision of heavenly glory 139, 240
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) 319–20
Wagner, Richard, Tristan und Isolde 302
Walcott, Derek 336
Walpole, Horace 8, 278, 319
Waugh, Auberon 155, 351 n.22
William of Nogaret 187–8
Williams, Charles 6–7, 8, 10, 13, 100, 114, 133, 204, 315
Williams, Rowan 6
Wilson, A. N., The Lampitt Papers 345 n.3
women, restrictions on 102
veiling 74–5
Wright, Roger 224–5
Yeats, W. B. 18, 117, 241, 279
‘Ego Dominus Tuus’ 11–12
