Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editions Followed and Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- 12. Centaurs, Spiders and Saints -- 13. 'Would you Adam and Eve it?' -- 14. The Patterning of History: Poetry, Politics and Adamic Renewal -- 15. Dante's Fatherlands -- 16. Politics of Desire -- 17. Seductive Lies, Unpalatable Truths, Alter Egos -- 18. Women, War and Wisdom -- 19. Inside Out -- 20. Prediction, Prophecy and Predestination: Eternalising Poetry in the Commedia -- 21. God's Beloved: From Pitch, Through Script, to Writ -- 22. Truth, Autobiography and the Poetry of Salvation -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- _GoBack.