Cavalcante de’ Cavalcanti, X.53
Cecina, XIII.9
Celestine V, III.59 [?]; XXVII.105
Ceprano, XXVIII.16
Cerberus, VI.13; IX.98
Cervia, XXVII.42
Cesena, XXVII.52
Ceüta, XXVI.111
Charlemagne, XXXI.17
Charles I (of Naples), XIX.99
Charon, III.82
Charybdis, VII.22
Chiron, XII.65
Ciacco, VI.38
Ciampolo, XXII.32
Cianfa, XXV.43
Cicero, IV.141
Cinyras, XXX.39
Circe, XXVI.91
Ciriatto, XXI.122; XXII.55
Clement V, XIX.82
Cleopatra, V.63
Cluny, XXIII.63
Cocytus, XIV.119; XXXI.123; XXXII.22; XXXIII.156; XXXIV.52
Colchis, XVIII.87
Colonna, The, XXVII.86
Constantine, XIX.115; XXVII.94
Cornelia, IV.128
Corneto, XII.137; XIII.9
Crete, XII.12; XIV.95
Curio, XXVIII.102
Cyprus, XXVIII.82
Daedalus, XVII.111; XXIX.116
Damietta, XIV.104
Danube, XXXII.26
David, IV.58; XXVIII.138
Deianira, XII.68
Deidamia, XXVI.62
Democritus, IV.136
Dido, V.61
Diogenes, IV.137
Diomedes, XXVI.56
Dionysius, XII.107
Dioscorides, IV.140
Dis (city), VIII.68
Dis (Satan), XI.65; XII.39; XXXIV.20
Dolcino, Fra, XXVIII.55
Don, XXXII.27
Draghignazzo, XXI.121; XXII.73
Duera, XXXII.116.
Egypt, V.60; XXVII.90
Electra, IV.121
Elijah, XXVI.35
Elisha, XXVI.34
Empedocles, IV.138; XII.42
Empoli, X.91
Ephialtes, XXXI.94
Epicurus, X.14
Erichtho, IX.23
Eteocles, XXVI.54
Ethiopia, XXIV.89
Euclid, IV.142
Euryalus, I.108
Eurypylus, XX.112
Ezzelino, XII.110
Faenza, XXVII.49; XXXII.123
Fano, XXVIII.76
Farfarello, XXI.123; XXII.94
Farinata, VI.79; X.32
Fiesole, XV.62
Filippo Argenti, VIII.32
Flanders, XV.4
Focaccia (Vanni dei Cancellieri), XXXII.63
Focara, XXVIII.89
Fonte Branda, XXX.78
Forlì, XVI.99; XXVII.43
France, XIX.87; XXVII.44; XXIX.123; XXXII.115
Francesca, V.74
Francesco d’Accorso, XV.110
Francis, St., XXVII.112
Frederick II, X.119; XIII.59; XXIII.66
Friesland, XXXI.64
Furies, IX.38
Gaddo, XXXIII.68
Gaeta, XXVI.92
Galen, IV.143
Gallahault, V.137
Gallura, XXII.82
Ganelon, XXXII.122
Garda, XX.65
Gardingo, XXIII.108
Garisenda, XXXI.136
Gaville, XXV.151
Genoa, XXXIII.151
Geri del Bello, XXIX.27
Germany, XVII.21; XX.62
Geryon, XVI.131; XVII.1; XVIII.20
Ghibellines, X.47
Ghisolabella, XVIII.55
Gianfigliazzi, XVII.59
Gianni de’ Soldanieri, XXXII.121
Gianni Schicchi, XXX.25
Giovanni Buiamonte, XVII.72
Gomita, Fra, XXII.81
Gorgon (see Medusa)
Gorgona, XXXIII.82
Governolo, XX.78
Graffiacane, XXI.122; XXII.34
Greece, XX.108; XXVI.75
Griffolino, XXIX.109; XXX.31
Gualandi, XXXIII.32
Gualdrada, XVI.37
Guido Bonatti, XX.118
Guido Cavalcanti, X.63
Guido da Montefeltro, XXVII.4
Guido da Romena, XXX.77
Guido del Cassero, XXVIII.77
Guido di Monforte, XII.118
Guido Guerra, XVI.34
Guido Vecchio da Polenta, XXVII.41
Guiglielmo Borsiere, XVI.70
Hannibal, XXXI.117
Hautefort, XXIX.29
Hector, IV.122
Helen, V.64
Henry II, XXVIII.135
Henry (Prince of Cornwall), XII.120
Heraclitus, IV.138
Hercules, XXV.32; XXVI.108; XXXI.132
Hippocrates, IV.143
Homer, IV.88
Horace, IV.89
Hypsipyle, XVIII.92
Icarus, XVII.109
Ida, Mount, XIV.98
Ilium (see Troy)
Imola, XXVII.49
India, XIV.32
Ino, XXX.5
Isaac, IV.59
Israel, IV.59
Jacopo da Sant’ Andrea, XIII.133
Jacopo Rusticucci, VI.80; XVI.44
Jason, XVIII.86
Jason (of Maccabees), XIX.85
Jehoshaphat, X.11
John the Baptist, XIII.143; XXX.74
John (the Evangelist), XIX.106
Joseph, XXX.97
Jove, XIV.52; XXXI.45
Judas Iscariot, IX.27; XIX.96; XXXI.143; XXXIV.62
Judecca, XXXIV.117
Julia, IV.128
Juno, XXX.1
Laertes, XXVI.95
Lamone, XXVII.49
Lancelot, V.128
Lanfranchi, XXXIII.32
Lano, XIII.120
Lateran, XXVII.86
Latinus, King, IV.125
Lavinia, IV.126
Learchus, XXX.10
Lemnos, XVIII.88
Lethe, XIV.131; XXXIV.130
Libicocco, XXI.121; XXII.70
Libya, XIV.14; XXIV.85
Linus, IV.141
Livy, XXVIII.12
Loderingo, XXIII.104
Logodoro, XXII.89
Lombard (dialect), XXVII.20
Lombardy, I.68; XXII.99
London, XII.120
Lucan, IV.90; XXV.94
Lucca, XVIII.122; XXI.38; XXXIII.30
Lucifer, XXXI.143; XXXIV.1
Lucretia, IV.128
Lucy, II.97
Luni, XX.47
Maccabees, XIX.86
Maghinardo Pagano, XXVII.50
Majorca, XXVIII.82
Malacoda, XXI.76
Malatesta da Verrucchio, XXVII.46
Malatesta, Gianciotto, V.107
Malatesta, Paolo, V.74
Malatestino da Verrucchio, XXVII.46; XXVIII.81
Malebolge, XVIII.1; XXI.5; XXIV.37; XXIX.41
Malebranche, XXI.37; XXII.100; XXIII.23; XXXIII.142
Manto, XX.55
Mantua, I.69; II.58; XX.93
Marcabò, XXVIII.75
Marcia, IV.128
Maremma, XIII.9; XXV.19; XXIX.48
Marquis, the (see Azzo of Este)
Mars, XIII.144; XXIV.145; XXXI.51
Matthias, XIX.94
Medea, XVIII.96
Medusa, IX.52
Megaera, IX.46
Melanippus, XXXII.131
Melicerta, XXX.5
Michael (archangel), VII.11
Michael Scot, XX.116
Michel Zanche, Don, XXII.88; XXXIII.144
Mincio, XX.77
Minos, V.4; XIII.96; XX.36; XXVII.124; XXIX.120
Minotaur, XII.12
Mohammed, XXVIII.31
Mongibello, XIV.56
Montagna, XXVII.47
Montaperti, X.85; XXXII.81
Monteriggione, XXXI.41
Montone, XVI.94
Mordred, XXXII.61
Morocco, XXVI.104
Mosca, VI.80; XXVIII.106
Moses, IV.57
Mount G
iordano, XVIII.33
Mount Viso, XVI.95
Myrrha, XXX.38
Napoleone degli Alberti, XXXII.41
Narcissus, XXX.128
Nasidius, XXV.95
Navarre, XXII.48
Navarrese, XXII.121 (see also Ciampolo)
Neptune, XXVIII.83
Nessus, XII.67; XIII.1
Niccolò, XXIX.127
Nicholas III, XIX.70
Nile, XXXIV.45
Nimrod, XXXI.46
Ninus, V.59
Nisus, I.108
Noah, IV.56
Novarese, XXVIII.59
Opizzo of Este, XII.111; XVIII.56
Orpheus, IV.140
Ovid, IV.90; XXV.97
Padua, XV.7; XVII.70
Palladium, XXVI.63
Paris, V.67
Pasiphaë, XII.13
Paul, II.28
Peleus, XXXI.5
Penelope, XXVI.96
Penestrino, XXVII.102
Pennino, XX.65
Penthesilea, IV.124
Peschiera, XX.70
Peter, St., I.134; II.24; XIX.91
Phaeton, XVII.107
Philip IV, XIX.87
Phlegethon, XII.47; XIV.77; XV.2; XVI.104; XVII.118
Phlegra, XIV.58; XXXI.94
Phlegyas, VIII.19
Phoenix, XXIV.107
Pholus, XII.72
Photinus, XI.9
Pier da Medicina, XXVIII.73
Pier delle Vigne, XIII.32
Pietrapana, XXXII.29
Pinamonte, XX.96
Pisa, XXXIII.30
Pistoia, XXIV.126; XXV.10
Plato, IV.134
Plutus, VI.115; VII.2
Po, V.98; XX.78
Pola, IX.113
Polenta, XXVII.41
Polydorus, XXX.18
Polyxena, XXX.17
Potiphar’s wife, XXX.97
Prato, XXVI.9
Priscian, XV.109
Proserpina, IX.44; X.80
Ptolomea, XXXIII.124
Ptolemy, IV.142
Puccio Sciancato, XXV.35
Pyrrhus, XII.135
Quarnero, IX.113
Rachel, II.102; IV.60
Ravenna, V.97; XXVII.40
Red Sea, XXIV.90
Reno, XVIII.61
Rhea, XIV.100
Rhone, IX.112
Rimini, XXVIII.86
Rinier of Corneto, XII.137
Rinier Pazzo, XII.137
Robert Guiscard, XXVIII.14
Roland, XXXI.18
Romagna, XXVII.28; XXXIII.154
Romena, XXX.73
Roncesvalles, XXXI.16
Rubicante, XXI.123; XXII.40
Ruggieri, Archbishop, XXXII.125; XXXIII.14
Sabellus, XXV.95
St. Peter’s, XVIII.32; XXXI.59
Saladin, IV.129
San Benedetto dell’Alpe, XVI.100
San Giovanni, X.87; XIX.7
Santerno, XXVII.49
Sardinia, XXII.89; XXVI.104; XXIX.48
Sassol Mascheroni, XXXII.65
Saturn, XIV.96
Savena, XVIII.61
Savio, XXVII.52
Scarmiglione, XXI.105
Scipio, XXXI.116
Scylla, VII.23
Semele, XXX.2
Semiramis, V.58
Seneca, IV.141
Serchio, XXI.49
Seville, XX.126; XXVI.110
Sextus (Pompeius), XII.135
Sichaeus, V.62
Sicily, XII.108; XXVII.7
Siena, XXIX.109
Silvius (Ascanius), II.13
Simon Magus, XIX.1
Sinon, XXX.98
Sismondi, XXXIII.32
Socrates, IV.134
Sodom, XI.50
Soracte, XXVII.95
Spain, XXVI.103
Stricca, XXIX.125
Strophades, XIII.11
Styx, VII.106; VIII.10; IX.81; XIV.116
Sultan, V.60; XXVII.90
Sylvester, XIX.117; XXVII.94
Tagliacozzo, XXVIII.17
Tambernic, XXXII.28
Tarquin, IV.127
Tartary, XVII.17
Tebaldello, XXXII.122
Tegghiaio Aldobrandi, VI.79; XVI.41
Telemachus, XXVI.94
Thaïs, XVIII.133
Thales, IV.137
Thames, XII.120
Thebes, XIV.69; XX.32; XXV.15; XXX.2; XXXII.11; XXXIII.89
Theseus, IX.54; XII.17
Thibaut, King, XXII.52
Tiber, XVIII.29; XXVII.30
Tiresias, XX.40
Tirol, XX.63
Tisiphone, IX.48
Tityus, XXXI.124
Toppo, XIII.121
Trent, XII.5; XX.67
Tristan, V.67
Trojans, I.74; XIII.11; XXVIII.10; XXX.14
Tully (see Cicero)
Turkey, XVII.17
Turnus, I.108
Tuscany, X.22; XXII.99; XXIII.76; XXIV.122; XXVIII.108; XXXII.66
Tydeus, XXXII.130
Typhon, XXXI.124
Ubaldini, Ottaviano, X.120
Ugolino, Count, XXXII.125; XXXIII.2
Uguiccione, XXXIII.89
Ulysses, XXVI.56; XXVII.1
Urbino, XXVII.29
Val Camonica, XX.65
Valdichiana, XXIX.47
Val di Magra, XXIV.145
Vanni Fucci, XXIV.97; XXV.1
Venedico Caccianemico, XVII.50
Venice, XXI.7
Vercelli, XXVIII.75
Verona, XV.122; XX.68
Verrucchio, XXVII.46
Vitaliano, XVII.68
Vulcan, XIV.57
Wissant, XV.4
Zeno, IV.138
Zita, XXI.38
INDEX OF SUBJECTS TREATED IN NOTES
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This index is meant to help the reader find subjects, treated in the notes, that may not be readily remembered as being related to a particular passage.
Achilles, lance of XXXI.1–6
addresses to the reader VIII.94–96
aleppe (Hebrew “aleph”) VII.1
aliger (wingèd), D. as XXVI.1–3
Alypius (in Confessions) XXIX.1–3
angels, neutral III.37–39
anger, three kinds of VII.109–114
anger, incontinent/willful XII.16–21; XII.33
ape as mimic XXIX.136–139
Apostolici (Apostolic Brethren) XXVIII.55–60
apostrophe (direct address) VIII.94–96
autorità (authority) IV.113
avarice (in the Aeneid) VII.25–30
Babel, Tower of XXXI.70–81
Baptistry, D.’s deed in XIX.16–21
barking (creatures in hell) V.4–5
Boethius VII.62–96
book, words for I.84
brigata spendereccia XIII.109–126; XXIX.124–135
brows (as locus of Pride) X.45; XXXIV.35
Cacus, as centaur XXV.19–33
canto, canzone, cantica XX.1–3
cantos, “connected” XIII.1–3; XV.1–3
cantos, lengths of VI.28–32
captatio benevolentiae II.58; II.109–114; V.88; XXIX.85–90; XXXI.125–132
catalogues of sinners V.58–67
Celestine V, Boniface’s view XXVII.103–105
chaos (Empedocles’ theory) XII.40–45
Cherub guarding empty Eden XXVIII.37–40
Christ as “Good Shepherd” XXI. 34–36
Christ as “Man of Sorrows” X.33
Christ’s descent into hell IV.52–54
city, hell as III.1–3
color (in Virgil’s face) IX.1–3
colors (rhetorical) III.10
comedy (and see “tragedy”) I.86–87; IV.88–90; XVI.124–132; XX.130; XXI.1–3; XXXIV.139
conception possible to poet II.7–9; XXXII.1–9
confession V.8; V.138
confusion of tongues XXXI.70–81
Constantine, Donation of XIX.115–117; XX
VII.94–97
contrapasso III.52–57; XXVIII.142
cord worn by D. I.32–34; XVI.106–108
crossing rivers, problems of III.136; XII.114–115
Daedalus XXIX.109–120
D. as author/narrator IV.145–147
D. as Old Testament prophet XVI.76
D. as soldier at war XII.75; XXI.95
date of journey I.1; I.11
date of poem’s composition VIII.1; XIX.79–87; XXI.112–114; XXVII.76–81
Deiphobus disfigured XXVIII.65
demonic resistance VII.1
Dite (see “king of hell”)
doves, “program” of V.82–84
dreams, truth of at morning XXVI.7
dying to sin XXXIV.22–27
“Ecce homo” parodied XVII.1–3; XXXIV.20–21
Empedocles (see “chaos”)
entry into Dis as military campaign IX.106
envy VI.49–51; XIII.64
epic I.1; IV.86; IV.95–96; XXVI.90–93; XXVIII.7–21
eternal and sempiternal III.7–8
exemplarity V.46–49
fable (vs. history) XVI.124–132; XXIX.58–66
fame as motivation XXIV.49–51
“five words w. understanding” VII.1; XXXI.67
forgery, varieties of XXIX.37–39
Fortuna as “Angel of Earth” VII.62–96
“foundation myth” of sin XIV.94–102; XXXIV.121–126
Francis and the black Cherub XXVII.112–114
frati gaudenti (Jovial Friars) XXIII.103
fraudulent counsel XXVII.116
friendship, spiritual II.61
future (known to the damned) X.100–108
gate of hell as triumphal arch III.1–9
Ghibelline views (D.’s) II.20–21
Ghibellinism (when Godless) X.89–93; XIII.73–75
giants, size of XXX.58–66; XXXIV.30–31
golden age (see “foundation myth”)
“golden mean” (Aristotle) VII.25–30
Guittone d’Arezzo XXVIII.7–21
harrowing of hell IV.46–51; VIII.121–126
heavenly disregard for sin II.85–93; IX.100–103
Hebrews harrowed from hell IV.55–61
hell, as mouth XXXI.142–143
heresy as sin of will IX.127–131
Holy Spirit, spiration of XIX.25; XXXIII.106–108; XXXIV.4–7
honorific voi as “You” X.49–51
“humanism” of D. IV.13
indignation, righteous VIII.40–45; IX.33; XXXIII.148–150
Inferno, measurement of XXIX.8–9; XXX.82–87
interpolations in narrative VIII.1
invocations II.7–9; X.59; XXXII.10–12
Jason, referred to in Par. XVIII.86–96
Judas, Pier delle Vigne as XIII.73–75
justice III.4
king of hell (Dite) VIII.68; XXXIV.20–21
Laocoön XII.22–25; XXV.10
Latin in Inferno XXXIV.1
latino (meaning “Italian”) XXII.64–66
Limbo, population of IV.30; IV.102
Manto, bilocation of XX.52–56
Maundy Thursday I.11
Mercury (as intercessor) IX.85
Michael (archangel) VII.10–12; IX.85
miles gloriosus (Capaneus) XIV.51–60
monsters, functions of XII.16–21
music of the devil XXI.136–139
musical instruments XXX.49–51