Author: Dante AlighieriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The Banquet of Dante Alighieri
Il Convito. The Banquet
Author: Dante AlighieriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Banquet of Dante Alighieri
Author: Dante AlighieriPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498013086
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1887 Edition.
The Banquet (Il Convito)
Author: Dante AlighieriPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"The Banquet (Il Convito)" by Dante Alighieri is an unfinished work which consists of four books, or, "tratatti": a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a canzone and a prose allegorical interpretation or commentary of the poem. The Convivio is a kind of vernacular encyclopedia of the knowledge of Dante's time; it touches on many areas of learning, not only philosophy but also politics, linguistics, science, astronomy, and history. The treatise begins with the prefatory book, or proem, which explains why a book like the Convivio is needed and why Dante is writing it in the vernacular instead of Latin. It is one of Dante's early defenses of the vernacular
The Banquet
Author: Dante AlighieriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Between 1304 and 1307 Dante wrote Convivio, or "The Banquet," a philosophical essay which is part poetry and part prose. It is in four parts, or treatises, and is unfinished. It is the record of Dante's thirty months of study in the fields of philosophy, ethics, politics and metaphysics. Dante outlines the origin of his love of philosophy, tracing a love of knowledge to its manifestation as a love of God. The "Banquet" in question here is Dante's offering: a banquet philosophical insight and wisdom. The guests are those who are hungry for knowledge but are too entrenched in politics to pursue it. Hence why Dante wrote "The Banquet" in Italian (as opposed to Latin), so that the average man could understand it. To extend the metaphor, Dante means for the poetry to represent the entree of a meal, while the prose serves as the bread. Buon appetito!
Reading as the Angels Read
Author: Maria Luisa ArdizzonePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442624558
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
An uncompleted manuscript that combines lyric poetry and prose commentary, the Banquet (or Convivio) is one of Dante Alighieri’s most important and least understood philosophical texts. As Maria Luisa Ardizzone shows, its language and logic are deeply connected to medieval culture and the philosophical debates of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. In Reading as the Angels Read, Ardizzone reconstructs the cultural and socio-political background that provided the motivation for the Banquet and offers a bold new reading of this ambitious work. Drawing on a deep knowledge of Dante’s engagement with biblical, Augustinian, Neoplatonic, and Aristotelian philosophy, she suggests that the Banquet is not an encyclopedia of learning as many have claimed, but Dante’s attempt to articulate a theory of human happiness in which perfect knowledge is the natural basis for a well-organized political community.
The Banquet Il Convito of Dante Alighieri
Author: Dante AlighieriPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498092258
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1889 Edition.
Cosmological and Philosophical World of Dante Alighieri
Author: Jacek GrzybowskiPublisher: European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions
ISBN: 9783631655320
Category : Astronomy, Medieval, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The book analyses the medieval vision of the world as depicted in Dante Alighieri's poetic works. In detail it discusses two works, The Banquet and The Divine Comedy, and offers a view on politics, faith and the universe of the medieval period. For modern people that period with its debates, polemics and visions represents something exceedingly remote, obscure and unknown. While admiring Dante's poetic artistry, we often fail to recognize the inspirations that permeated the works of medieval scholars and poets. Although times are constantly changing, every generation has to face the same fundamental questions of meaning, purpose and value of human existence: Dante's cosmological and poetical picture turns out to be surprisingly universal.
Dante and the Making of a Modern Author
Author: Albert Russell AscoliPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139470701
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Leading scholar Albert Russell Ascoli traces the metamorphosis of Dante Alighieri – minor Florentine aristocrat, political activist and exile, amateur philosopher and theologian, and daring experimental poet – into Dante, author of the Divine Comedy and perhaps the most self-consciously 'authoritative' cultural figure in the Western canon. The text offers a comprehensive introduction to Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority from the early Vita Nuova through the unfinished treatises, The Banquet and On Vernacular Eloquence, to the works of his maturity, Monarchy and the Divine Comedy. Ascoli reveals how Dante anticipates modern notions of personalized, creative authorship and the phenomenon of 'Renaissance self-fashioning'. Unusually, the book examines Dante's career as a whole offering an important point of access not only to the Dantean oeuvre, but also to the history and theory of authorship in the larger Italian and European tradition.
Author: Dante Alighieri