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Jan 29, 2001 · Dante Alighieri. First published Mon Jan 29, 2001; substantive revision Mon Aug 15, 2022. Dante’s engagement with philosophy cannot be studied apart from his vocation as a poet, in which capacity he sought to raise the level of public discourse by educating his countrymen and inspiring them to pursue happiness in the contemplative life.
Aug 21, 2021 · Dante certainly imagined liberal education as constituted by the trivium and the quadrivium—the arts of word (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and those of number (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music)—as propaedeutic to the study of philosophy and theology, and he imagined poetry, in a work he wrote on the Italian language, De vulgari eloquentia, to be the liberal art combining the ...
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One of the solutions often proposed is to see Dante as someone belonging to the small elite of those with university-level training and targeting an audience that shared his same advanced education. Paradoxically, therefore, while the poet stressed the wide reach of his cultural project, in practice his works perpetuated an established social and intellectual hierarchy of readers.
Aug 21, 2021 · Dante certainly imagined liberal education as constituted by the trivium and the quadrivium—the arts of word (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and those of number (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music)—as propaedeutic to the study of philosophy and theology, and he imagined poetry, in a work he wrote on the Italian language, De vulgari eloquentia, to be the liberal art combining the ...
As both texts present the act of re-examining one’s own education, and particularly the place of elegiac poetry in Latin training, as part of their spiritual and ethical conversion, in Purgatorio 30–33, Dante questions Henry’s educational model of elegiac poetry. Thus, through Beatrice’s character, Dante puts forth an alternative model of Christian comic poetry and presents his own ...
Dante (born c. May 21–June 20, 1265, Florence [Italy]—died September 13/14, 1321, Ravenna) was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy). Dante’s Divine Comedy, a landmark in ...
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Abstract. This chapter focuses on Dante’s philosophical and theological interests, starting from the poet’s account of the genesis of his love for philosophy in the second treatise of the Convivio. The circumstances of Dante’s philosophical formation are recalled, together with the Convivio ’s main themes.
