Suggestions for Further Reading
Alighieri, Dante. Paradiso.
Trans. John Ciardi. New York: New American Library, 1987.
———. Purgatorio. Trans. John
Ciardi. New York: New American Library, 1987.
Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis:
The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Trans.
Willard R. Trask. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1953.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern
Critical Interpretations: Dante’s The Divine Comedy. New
York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.
Chiarenza, Marguerite.
The Divine Comedy: Tracing God’s Art. Boston: Twayne
Publishers, 1989.
Himmelfarb, Martha. Tours
of Hell: An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.
Tierney, Brian, ed. The
Crisis of the Church & State: 1050–1300. Englewood
Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1964.
