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the Divine comedy as a Medieval vision of the universe

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An edition of Cosmological and Philosophical World of Dante Alighieri (2015)

Cosmological and Philosophical World of Dante Alighieri

the Divine comedy as a Medieval vision of the universe

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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. - Publisher.

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Peter Lang
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Cosmological and Philosophical World of Dante Alighieri: «the Divine Comedy» As a Medieval Vision of the Universe
2015, Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
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Cosmological and Philosophical World of Dante Alighieri: «the Divine Comedy» As a Medieval Vision of the Universe
2015, Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
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Cosmological and Philosophical World of Dante Alighieri: the Divine comedy as a Medieval vision of the universe
2015, Peter Lang
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Table of Contents

Florence : the city of faith, art and politics
I. Dante Alighieri : science, politics and art.
Europe in the Middle Ages
Florence : the city and its history
Social conflicts and clashes
Dante, Guelphs and Ghibellines
Political desires of the poet
The scientific way of Dante
Dante's works
II. The Convivio : theology and cosmology.
Aristotelianism in medieval Europe
The power of philosophy
The Noble Lady
Cosmological models of the universe
The medieval universe of knowledge
The hierarchy of sciences in the model of the cosmos
The consequences of the division of science into the spheres of space
The meeting of philosophy, faith and love
Philosophy as a preparatio fidei
The Banquet : the struggle of poetry, reason and faith
III. The Divine Comedy : major themes.
Alone in the the dark woods
Inferno
Purgatorium
Paradise
IV. In the Dantesque theatrum mundi.
Journey to the afterlife : sources and inspirations
Cosmology and geography in the world of Dante
The Prime Unmoved Mover
Dante's spherical geometry
The spiritual nature of the cosmos
The world endowed with inherent sense
Travel as an act of purification
The scandal of existence of the Hell
The Gentiles and children : the issue of limbo
Cato as a model of heroism?
Dante and Ulysses : a pilgrim and an explorer
Aristotelianism, Thomism and Averroism of Dante Alighieri
The difference of Dante's world
Conclusion
Bibliography

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Frankfurt am Main, New York
Series
European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions ; v. 9

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1 online resource (157 p.)

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OL26481601M
ISBN 10
3653049598
ISBN 13
9783653049596

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OL17905541W

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