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"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 Ba

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Author

Maria Luisa Ardizzone

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442624542

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25