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toward the publication of this book The second volume of the California Lectura Dantis draws on a wide range of international scholar-critics. Each contributor presents his or her own reading, in essay form, of a canto of the Purgatorio. The Inferno and forthcoming Paradiso volumes follow the same format, providing the long-awaited companion to the three volumes of Allen Mandelbaum’s verse translations, with facing Italian text, of The .

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Ignazio Baldelli University of Rome

Teodolinda Barolini

Charles T. Davis Tulane University

Giuseppe Di Scipio Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY

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Emilio Pasquini University of Bologna

Lea Ritter Santini University of Münster

John A. Scott University of Western Australia Lectura Dantis

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Purgatorio

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Berkeley Los Angeles London The Mountain of Purgatory drawing, by Barry Moser, originally appeared in the University of California Press’s edition of Allen Mandelbaum’s translation of Purgatorio, in 1982.

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Lectura Dantis : Purgatorio / edited by Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Ross. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-520-25055-0 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-520-25056-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. , 1265–1321. Purgatorio. I. Mandelbaum, Allen, 1926– II. Oldcorn, Anthony. III. Ross, Charles. PQ4447.L43 2008 851'.1—dc22 2007033778

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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper). This volume of the California Lectura Dantis is dedicated to our indispensable colleague and peerless editor of the text of Dante’s Divine Comedy, the late

GIORGIO PETROCCHI It is unthinkable to read the cantos of Dante without aiming them in the direction of the present day. They were made for that.... They demand the commentary of the futurum.

OSIP MANDELSTAM