{"product_id":"reading-as-the-angels-read-speculation-and-politics-in-dantes-banquet-hardback-9781442637061","title":"Reading As the Angels Read; Speculation and Politics in Dante's 'Banquet' (Hardback) 9781442637061","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReading As the Angels Read\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpeculation and Politics in Dante's 'Banquet'\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaria Luisa Ardizzone (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442637061\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 March 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e472 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.6 x 3.5 cm, 0.84 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;Ardizzone contribution is subtle and illuminating… She sets before her readers a banquet that constitutes an important contribution to the field of Dante studies.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Jason Aleksander (Renaissance Quarterly vol 70:04:2017)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn uncompleted manuscript that combines lyric poetry and prose commentary, the \u003cem\u003eBanquet\u003c\/em\u003e (or \u003cem\u003eConvivio\u003c\/em\u003e) 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eReading as the Angels Read\u003c\/em\u003e, Ardizzone reconstructs the cultural and socio-political background that provided the motivation for the \u003cem\u003eBanquet\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eBanquet\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One: Introducing a Cosmic Intellectual Dimension: The Dialectical Nature of Human Essence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Loving a Divine Idea: A Cognitive and Educational Process\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Reading with Suspicio: Mind and Philosophy. A Philosophical Discussion about Mind\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Community and Intellectual Happiness: The Invention of a Shifting Logical Subject\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Syllogism and Censura: The Moralization of Nobility and the Decline of Intellectual and Political Aristocracy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52588179194136,"sku":"9781442637061","price":55.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reading-as-the-angels-read-speculation-and-politics-in-dantes-banquet-hardback-9781442637061","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}