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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Notes to Canto 1 | |
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| Notes to Canto 2 | |
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| Notes to Canto 3 | |
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| Notes to Canto 4 | |
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| Notes to Canto 5 | |
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| Notes to Canto 6 | |
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| Notes to Canto 7 | |
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| Notes to Canto 8 | |
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| Notes to Canto 9 | |
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| Notes to Canto 10 | |
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| Notes to Canto 11 | |
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| Notes to Canto 12 | |
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| Notes to Canto 13 | |
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| Notes to Canto 14 | |
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| Notes to Canto 15 | |
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| Notes to Canto 16 | |
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| Notes to Canto 17 | |
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| Notes to Canto 18 | |
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| Notes to Canto 19 | |
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| Notes to Canto 20 | |
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| Notes to Canto 21 | |
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| Notes to Canto 22 | |
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| Notes to Canto 23 | |
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| Notes to Canto 24 | |
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| Notes to Canto 25 | |
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| Notes to Canto 26 | |
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| Notes to Canto 27 | |
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| Notes to Canto 28 | |
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| Notes to Canto 29 | |
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| Notes to Canto 30 | |
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| Notes to Canto 31 | |
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| Notes to Canto 32 | |
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| Notes to Canto 33 | |
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| Vergil, Eclogue IV | |
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| Guido Cavalcanti's "Pastorella" | |
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| Additional Notes | |
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| Cato of Utica (Canto 1) | |
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| The Meeting with Casella (Canto 2) | |
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| Belacqua and the Horizons of Purgatory | |
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| Vergil's Palinurus in Purgatorio and the Rudderless Ship of State (Canto 6) | |
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| The Canonical Hours; Compline (Canto 8) | |
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| The Terrace of Pride: i. Structure and Rationale (Cantos 10-12) | |
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| The Terrace of Pride: ii. The Theme of Art (Cantos 10-12) | |
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| San Miniato al Monte and Dante's Pride of Workmanship (Canto 12) | |
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| Number, Light, Motion, and Degree at the Center of the Comedy | |
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| Dante and Forese (Cantos 23-24) | |
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| Embryology and Heredity (Canto 25) | |
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| The Virtues of the Virgin Mary (After Canto 27) | |
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| Dante and Ovid's Pyramus (Canto 27) | |
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| Virgil and the Fourth Eclogue (Canto 30) | |
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| Rolling Out the Apocalypse (Cantos 29-33) | |
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| Textual Variants | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Italian, Latin, and Other Foreign Words Discussed in the Notes | |
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| Index of Passages Cited in the Notes | |
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| Index of Proper Names in the Notes | |
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| Index of Proper Names in the Text and Translation | |
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| Maps | |
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| Italy, ca. 1300 | |
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| Romagna and Tuscany, ca. 1300 | |
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| The Celestial Sphere and the Zodiac | |
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| The Structure of Dante's Purgatory | |
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| Figures | |
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| The relative positions of the Ganges, Purgatory, Gibraltar, and Jerusalem | |
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| Sunset in Jerusalem, sunrise in Purgatory | |
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| Melancholy (from the illustration to Ps. 41.6 in the Stuttgart Psalter, from Saint Germain des Pres, ca. 820) | |
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| Guardian angels (from the mosaic in the Baptistery, Florence, 1290's?) | |
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| The Annunciation (from the painting by Simone Martini in the Uffizi, Florence, 1333) | |
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| A Telamon (from the tribune of the Baptistery, Florence, ca. 1225) | |
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| A tomb slab (from the tomb of Michele da Budrio, by Iacopo della Quercia: Bologna, San Michele in Bosco, 1435) | |
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| The stairway to San Miniato in Dante's time (based on the illustration by Pietro del Massaio in Jacopo d'Angelo's translation of Ptolemy's Geography, Cod. Vat. Urb. Lat. 299, 1470) | |
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| The four Evangelists (from the font canopy in the cathedral, Cividale, ca. 775) | |
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| Ladies dancing and singing a ballata (from the fresco by Andrea Bonaiuti, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, ca. 1355) | |