Chapter 01, "Life of Dante" by Giusseppe Mazzotta
Chapter 02, "Dante and the Lyric Past" by Teodolinda Barolini
Chapter 03, "Approaching the Vita Nuova" by Robert Pogue Harrison
Chapter 04, "The unfinished author: Dante's rhetoric of authority in Convivio and de vulgaria eloquentia" by Albert Russell Ascoli
Chapter 05, "Dante and the empire" by Charles Till Davis
Chapter 06, "Dante and Florence" by John M. Najemy
Chapter 07, "Dante and the classical poets" by Kevin Brownlee
Chapter 08, "Dante and the Bible" by Peter S. Hawkins
Chapter 09, "The theology of Dante" by Christopher Ryan
Chapter 10, "A poetics of chaos and harmony" by Joan Ferrante
Chapter 11, "Introduction to Inferno" by John Freccero
Chapter 12, "Introduction to Purgatorio" by Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Chapter 13, "'Shadowy prefaces': An Introduction to Paradiso" by Rachel Jacoff
Chapter 14, "Dante and his commentators" by Robert Hollander
Chapter 15, "Dante in English" by David Wallace