Introduction: Transforming Desire Part I: Transformations 1. Modern Lovers: Evanescence and the Act in Dante, Arnaut, and Sordello 2. L'ora che volge il disio': Comparative Hermeneutics of Desire in Dante and 'AttÄr 3. Ever-Growing Desire: Spiritual Pregnancy in Hadewijch and in Middle High German Mystics 4. Quali colombe dal disio chiamate': A Bestiary of Desire in Dante's Commedia 5. Dante Painting an Angel: Image-making, Double-oriented Sonnets and Dissemblance in Vita Nuova xxxiv Part II: Senses and Intellect 6. The Call of the Beautiful: Augustine and the Object of Desire in Purgatorio x 7. Desire and Devotion, Vision and Touch in the Vita Nuova 8. Intellectual Memory and Desire in Augustine and Dante's Paradiso 9. Sexualities and Knowledges in Purgatorio xxvi and Inferno v Part 3: Textuality and Translatiü 10. Between 'Unio' and Alienation: Expressions of Desire in the Strophic Poems of Hadewijch 11. Desire, Subjectivity, and Lyric Poetry in Dante's Convivio and Commedia 12. Desire as a Dead Letter: A Reading of Petrarch's RVF 125 13. Queer Metaphors and Queerer Reproduction in Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae and Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose 14. Desiring Tales: Two Vernacular Poetics of Desire

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