Cosmological and philosophical world of Dante Alighieri
Subtitle: The Divine Comedy as a medieval vision of the universe
Series: European studies in theology, philosophy and history of religions, volume 9
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9783631655320
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. --Publisher