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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.
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Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Dante's TextsIntroduction3Ch. 1Poetry and the Encyclopedia15Ch. 2Sacrifice and Grammar34Ch. 3The Light of Venus56Ch. 4Metaphor and Justice75Ch. 5Logic and Power96Ch. 6Imagination and Knowledge116Ch. 7The Dream of the Siren135Ch. 8Language and Vision154Ch. 9Theology and Exile174Ch. 10Order and Transgression197Ch. 11Theologia Ludens219Notes243Bibliography285Index317
