1. Dante and the lyric past
2. Guittone's Ora parrá, Dante's Doglia mi reca, and the Commedia's anatomy of desire
3. Dante and Cavalcanti (on making distinctions in matters of love) : Inferno 5 in its lyric and autobiographical context
4. Medieval multiculturalism and Dante's theology of hell
5. Why did Dante write the Commedia? Dante and the visionary tradition
6. Minos's tail : the labor of devising hell (Aeneid 6.431-33 and Inferno 5.1-24)
7. Q : Does Dante hope for Vergil's salvation? A : Why do we care? For the very reason we should not ask the question
8. Arachne, Argus, and St. John : transgressive art in Dante and Ovid
9. Cominciandomi dal principio infino a la fine : forging anti-narrative in the Vita nuova
10. The making of a lyric sequence : time and narrative in Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
11. The wheel of the Decameron
12. Editing Dante's Rime and Italian cultural history : Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca...Barbi, Contini, Foster-Boyde, De Robertis
13. Le parole son femmine e i fatti son maschi : toward a sexual poetics of the Decameron (Decameron 2.9, 2.10, 5.10)
14. Dante and Francesca da Rimini : realpolitik, romance, gender
15. Sotto benda : gender in the lyrics of Dante and Guittone d' Arezzo (with a brief excursus on Cecco d'Ascoli)
16. Notes toward a gendered history of Italian literature, with a discussion of Dante's Beatrix Loquax
