Dante Flashcards
Formation
-Forms and themes of Stilnovo
-Brunetto Latini prose
-Classical philosophy
-Classical latin and christian authors (Aristotele, Cicerone, Seneca, Boezio)
Themes
-Stilnovist conception of love
-Political thought: Autonomy of Empire and Papacy, the “two suns”, the two authorities willed by God
-Condition of the intellectual in exile
-Search for the “illustrious vernacular”
-Stylistic experimentalism
Works: Vernacular
Vita Nova
Rhyme
Convivio
Works: Latin
De Vulgari eloquentia
De Monarchia
Epistles
Divine Comedy
Vita Nuova
Prosimeter in which spiritual renewal through love for Beatrice is celebrated.
Vita Nuova (T)
T10: The book of memory
T11: The first meeting
T12: The second meeting
T13: The poetics of praise
T14: Women who have intellect of love
T15: So kind and so honest it seems.
T16: Beyond the hope that wider turns.
T17: The “admirable vision”.
Rhyme
Youthful poetic compositions not entered in the vita nuova and lyrics from the period of exile
Rhyme(T)
T1: Guido, I would like you and Lapo and I.
T5: Three women around my heart have come.
T8: So in my speech I want to be harsh.
T9: The tussle with Forese.
Convivio
Encyclopaedic and doctrinal work, discontinued at fourth treatise.
Convivio (T)
T2: The natural desire to know.
T6: The bitterness of the exile.
De Vulgari eloquentia
Treatise in 4 books on the question of language
De Vulgari eloquentia (T)
T7: Characteristics of the “illustrious” vernacular.
De monarchia
Political treatise, on the nature of the monarchy and the relations between the two absolute powers of the time, Empire and Papacy
De Monarchia (T)
T4: Pope and emperor, the “two suns”.
Epistles
13 letters: the fifth, sixth and seventh deal with Arrigo VII’s descent into Italy; the thirteenth is addressed to Cangrande della Scala.
