the Epistle to Can Grande, 58, 62, 127, 129, 136, 146, 167, 194; the _Eclogues_, 59, 63, 128, 130-134, 144; the _Quaestio de Aqua et Terra_, 58, 63, 134-135; the _Divina Commedia_, its completion, 59, 60, 62-64; publication and diffusion, 64, 65; earliest commentators, 64; language, 106; ethical and mystical, 128, 129; letter and allegory, 136-138; title, 137; metrical structure, 106, 138-139; sources, 139-141; symbolism of Virgil and Beatrice, 141-143; date of composition, 143-145; time, 145; _Inferno_, 146-164; _Purgatorio_, 164-192; _Paradiso_, 192-221 Abati, Bocca degli, 161 ---- Durante degli, 10, 24 Acquasparta, Cardinal Matteo da, 32-33, 36 Adam, 103, 191, 214, 219 Adam of Brescia, 160 Adimari (Florentine family), 23 Adolph of Nassau, 100 Adrian IV., Pope, 110 ---- V., Pope, 178 Aeneas, 114, 147, 155, 169, 208 Agostino, 205 Aguglione, Baldo da, 51 Alberigo, Frate 144, 161 Albert of Austria, 30, 48, 100 Albertus Magnus, 1, 95, 141, 205 Aldobrandesco, Omberto, 173 Alexander the Great, 115 Alighieri, family, 6, 25 ---- Alighiero di Bellincione (Dante’s father), 6, 9, 14 ---- Antonia, 23_n._, 60_n._ ---- Beatrice, 23_n._, 60_n._ ---- Bella, 10 ---- Brunetto di Bellincione, 7 ---- Francesco, 10 ---- Geri del Bello, 7 ---- Giovanni, 23_n._ ---- Gemma Donati, 23, 58, 60_n._, 127, 132 ---- Jacopo di Dante, 23, 56, 58, 60_n._, 64 ---- Lapa Cialuffi, 10 ---- Pietro di Dante, 12, 23, 56, 58, 60_n._, 64, 127. ---- Tana, 10 Alighiero (son of Cacciaguida), 7 Altoviti, Palmieri, 32, 36, 37, 52 Anastasius, Pope, 155 Anchises, 169, 208 Anne, St., 219 Anselm, St., 206 Antaeus, 161 Aquinas, St. Thomas, 1, 5, 80, 141, 150, 151, 152, 155, 172, 192, 205, 206 Argenti, Filippo, 154 Ariosto, 140 Aristotle, 1, 14, 39, 80, 89, 95, 97, 100, 141, 150, 152, 176, 214, 215 Arnaut, Daniel, 90, 107, 182 Augustine, St., 117, 129, 141, 172, 200, 219, 220 Augustus, 109, 113, 115 Averroës, 99, 152 Beatrice, traditionally identified with Bice Portinari, 12, 13, 14; her brother, 15, 78; her death, 20; Cino’s canzone on, 21; Dante’s wanderings from her, 21; in Dante’s work, 61, 62; in the _Vita Nuova_, 69-79; reference to her in the _Convivio_, 81, 84, 86, 89, 93, 98, 99, 111; her symbolism in the _Divina Commedia_, 141, 142; sends Virgil, 148; her part in the Earthly Paradise, 187-191; guides Dante through the spheres of Paradise, 194, 199-216; her glory in the Empyrean, 218-220 Bambaglioli, Graziolo dei, 65, 119 Bacci, O., 60_n._ Barbadoro, B., 32_n._ Barbi, M., 11, 23_n._, 56_n._, 82, 83, 93_n._, 127 Bardi, Simone dei, 12 Bartoli, A., 11 Battifolle, Countess of, 125 Bede, St., 205 Becchi, Lippo, 36 Belacqua, 168 Bella, Giano della, 24, 25, 28 Benedict, St., 212, 219