- Docente: Maurizio Malaguti
- Credits: 6
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philosophical Sciences (cod. 0975)
Course contents
The metaphysics of Dante's Comedy
The discussions about whether Dante is a mystic or a rationalist, a Bonaventurian or a Thomist, a Neoplatonist or an Aristotelian have been so fervent perhaps in part because the intuitive response in each case is that he is neither one nor the other, but both. From a metaphysical point of view, there is no fundamental incompatibility between these position as they were held in Dante's time. Dante himself aimed at Truth in which all differences are reconciled. There is nothing more intellectually rigorous than Dante's mysticism; there is nothing more mystical than is understanding of intellect.
Readings/Bibliography
Dante Alighieri, Il paradiso, in La divina commedia, Hoepli, Milano 1986.
Barolini Teodolinda,, Dante's Poets: Textuality and Truth in the Comedy, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984,
Singleton Charles, Dantes's Commedia: Elements of Structure, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
Maurizio Malaguti, La metafisica del volto. Una lettura di Dante, FuoriThema, Bologna 1996.
Mandonnet Pierre, Dante le théologien: introduction à l'intelligence de la vie, des œuvres e de l'art de Dante Alighieri, Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 1935.
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