In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis,
Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle
of the liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology--interacted
with poetry and elevated the Divine Comedy to a central position in
shaping all other forms of discursive knowledge. To trace the
circle of Dante's intellectual concerns, Mazzotta examines the
structure and aims of medieval encyclopedias, especially in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries; the medieval classification of
knowledge; the battle of the arts; the role of the imagination; the
tension between knowledge and vision; and Dante's theological
speculations in his constitution of what Mazzotta calls aesthetic,
ludic theology. As a poet, Dante puts himself at the center of
intellectual debates of his time and radically redefines their
configuration. In this book, Mazzotta offers powerful new readings
of a poet who stands amid his culture's crisis and fragmentation,
one who responds to and counters them in his work. In a critical
gesture that enacts Dante's own insight, Mazzotta's practice is
also a fresh contribution to the theoretical literary debates of
the present.
Originally published in 1992.
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