Zygmunt G. Barański is Emeritus R. L. Canala Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures with the University of Notre Dame and the Serena Professor of Italian Emeritus with the University of Cambridge. His many publications include Dante's "Vita Nova" (co-edited with Heather Webb).Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., is the Pizzo Family Chair in Dante Studies and Ravarino Family Director of Italian and Dante Studies and the Center for Italian Studies/Devers Family Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His numerous publications include Dante's "Other Works" (co-edited with Zygmunt G. Barański).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Civil Rights and Civil War: American Dantes by David Wallace2. A Star Unlike: Dante and the American Transcendentalists by Laura Dassow Walls3. The Divine Comedy as an American Civil-War Epic by Joshua Matthews4. Dante and Social Justice: Foundations and Beginnings in the American Reception by Dennis Looney5. "All the verities mundane and spiritual": Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete and Dante by Kathleen Boyle6. "Now Was Your Semblance Made Like Unto This?" Dante's Face in America by Kathleen Verduin7. Recollecting Dante Collecting: An American Pilgrimage by Christian Y. Dupont8. "In Good Faith": From Dante's First American Poet-Translator, Thomas William Parsons, to Sandow Birk, Marcus Sanders and Mary Jo Bang by Kristina M. Olson9. Dante and T.S. Eliot: Desire and Form by Henry Weinfield10. Between Dante and Whitman: Robert Duncan's "Dante Études" by Stephen Fredman11. Dante, Jazz, and the Black Radical Tradition by Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg12. "The Lantern of the World Rises to Mortals by Varied Paths": Paul Laffoley (1935- 2015) and Dante by Arielle Saiber13. Nel Mezzo del Cammin: Finding a "Spiritual" Dante in American Religious Culture by Peter S. HawkinsBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

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