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Reading as the angels read : speculation and politics in Dante's Banquet /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ardizzone, Maria Luisa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Colección:Toronto Italian studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introducing a cosmic intellectual dimension: the dialectical nature of human being
  • Loving a divine idea: a cognitive and educational process
  • Reading with Suspicio: mind and philosophy. A philosophical discussion about mind
  • Community and intellectual happiness. The invention of a shifting logical subject
  • Syllogism and censura: the moralization of nobility and the decline of intellectual and political aristocracy.