How Dante Can Save Your Life: the Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem

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Intro; Dedication; Introduction: Why Dante?; Epigraph; Part I: From the Garden to the Dark Wood; 1. The Child Is Father to the Man; 2. There and Back Again-Twice; 3. The Super Tuscan; 4. Rules of the Road; Part II: Inferno, or, Why you are Broken; 5. The Stories of Our Lives; 6. Into the Black Hole; 7. The Tempest; 8. Uncle Jimmy Versus the Golden Calf; 9. The Life of Books, the Books of Life; 10. The Power of the Image; 11. False Gods and Heretics; 12. Is Life Ever Not Worth Living?; 13. The Great and the Good; 14. Sins of the Fathers; 15. The End of All Our Exploring; 16. Out of Egypt Intro Dedication Introduction: Why Dante? Epigraph Part I: From the Garden to the Dark Wood 1. The Child Is Father to the Man 2. There and Back Again-Twice 3. The Super Tuscan 4. Rules of the Road Part II: Inferno, or, Why you are Broken 5. The Stories of Our Lives 6. Into the Black Hole 7. The Tempest 8. Uncle Jimmy Versus the Golden Calf 9. The Life of Books, the Books of Life 10. The Power of the Image 11. False Gods and Heretics 12. Is Life Ever Not Worth Living? 13. The Great and the Good 14. Sins of the Fathers 15. The End of All Our Exploring 16. Out of Egypt Part III: Purgatorio, or, How to be Healed17. Stand Up and Walk 18. The Will to Love 19. The Ghost in You 20. Pride 21. Envy 22. Wrath 23. Sloth 24. Gluttony 25. Lust Part IV: Paradiso, or, the way Things Ought to be 26. Into the Light 27. Down by the Riverside Conclusion: How to Make Your Own Dante Pilgrimage Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author Bibliography Copyright