03235nam 22006255 450 991079811950332120230205051327.01-4426-2455-81-4426-2454-X10.3138/9781442624542(CKB)3710000000645350(EBL)4515658(OCoLC)950464876(SSID)ssj0001696227(PQKBManifestationID)16546318(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001696227(PQKBWorkID)15042951(PQKB)25091621(MiAaPQ)EBC4669673(OOCEL)451346(OCoLC)946999694(CaBNVSL)kck00236651(MiAaPQ)EBC4515658(DE-B1597)498436(DE-B1597)9781442624542(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107091(PPN)228345677(EXLCZ)99371000000064535020191221d2018 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading as the Angels Read Speculation and Politics in Dante's 'Banquet' /Maria Luisa ArdizzoneToronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]©20161 online resource (466 p.)Toronto Italian Studies1-4426-3706-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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."--Provided by publisher.Toronto Italian studies.Politics in literatureLibros electronicos.Politics in literature.851.1Ardizzone Maria Luisa, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.223950DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910798119503321Reading as the Angels Read3688054UNINA