| I. The Shores of Purgatory. The Four Stars. Cato of Utica. The Rush. |
| II. The Celestial Pilot. Casella. The Departure. |
| III. Discourse on the Limits of Reason. The Foot of the Mountain. Those who died in Contumacy of Holy Church. Manfredi. |
| IV. Farther Ascent. Nature of the Mountain. The Negligent, who postponed Repentance till the last Hour. Belacqua. |
| V. Those who died by Violence, but repentant. Buonconte di Monfeltro. La Pia. |
| VI. Dante’s Inquiry on Prayers for the Dead. Sordello. Italy. |
| VII. The Valley of Flowers. Negligent Princes. |
| VIII. The Guardian Angels and the Serpent. Nino di Gallura. The Three Stars. Currado Malaspina. |
| IX. Dante’s Dream of the Eagle. The Gate of Purgatory and the Angel. Seven P’s. The Keys. |
| X. The Needle’s Eye. The First Circle: The Proud. The Sculptures on the Wall. |
| XI. The Humble Prayer. Omberto di Santafiore. Oderisi d’ Agobbio. Provenzan Salvani. |
| XII. The Sculptures on the Pavement. Ascent to the Second Circle. |
| XIII. The Second Circle: The Envious. Sapia of Siena. |
| XIV. Guido del Duca and Renier da Calboli. Cities of the Arno Valley. Denunciation of Stubbornness. |
| XV. The Third Circle: The Irascible. Dante’s Visions. The Smoke. |
| XVI. Marco Lombardo. Lament over the State of the World. |
| XVII. Dante’s Dream of Anger. The Fourth Circle: The Slothful. Virgil’s Discourse of Love. |
| XVIII. Virgil further discourses of Love and Free Will. The Abbot of San Zeno. |
| XIX. Dante’s Dream of the Siren. The Fifth Circle: The Avaricious and Prodigal. Pope Adrian V. |
| XX. Hugh Capet. Corruption of the French Crown. Prophecy of the Abduction of Pope Boniface VIII and the Sacrilege of Philip the Fair. The Earthquake. |
| XXI. The Poet Statius. Praise of Virgil. |
| XXII. Statius’ Denunciation of Avarice. The Sixth Circle: The Gluttonous. The Mystic Tree. |
| XXIII. Forese. Reproof of immodest Florentine Women. |
| XXIV. Buonagiunta da Lucca. Pope Martin IV, and others. Inquiry into the State of Poetry. |
| XXV. Discourse of Statius on Generation. The Seventh Circle: The Wanton. |
| XXVI. Sodomites. Guido Guinicelli and Arnaldo Daniello. |
| XXVII. The Wall of Fire and the Angel of God. Dante’s Sleep upon the Stairway, and his Dream of Leah and Rachel. Arrival at the Terrestrial Paradise. |
| XXVIII. The River Lethe. Matilda. The Nature of the Terrestrial Paradise. |
| XXIX. The Triumph of the Church. |
| XXX. Virgil’s Departure. Beatrice. Dante’s Shame. |
| XXXI. Reproaches of Beatrice and Confession of Dante. The Passage of Lethe. The Seven Virtues. The Griffon. |
| XXXII. The Tree of Knowledge. Allegory of the Chariot. |
| XXXIII. Lament over the State of the Church. Final Reproaches of Beatrice. The River Eunoe. |