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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 October 2009
      16 September 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511551413
      9780521370097
      9780521028554
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551413
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.546kg, 364 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.562kg, 364 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies
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    Patrick Boyde argues that the way in which Dante represents what he (or his fictional self) saw and felt was profoundly influenced by the thirteenth-century science of psychology. Professor Boyde offers an authoritative account of the way in which vision and the emotions were understood in Dante's lifetime, and rereads many of the most dramatic and moving episodes in the Comedy, throwing light on Dante's narrative technique. Seeing and feeling were known to be inextricably bound up with thinking and voluntary action, and were treated as special cases of motion and motive forces. Dante's treatment of perception and passion is set in the context of Aristotelian epistemology, ethics and physics. In these areas too a knowledge of Dante's philosophical ideas is shown to illuminate his poetic representation of mental processes and value judgements, and the meaning of his journey towards the source of goodness and truth.

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    "...in it we are allowed to watch an elegant and graceful explicator at work, a truly learned and inventive reader who manages--mirabile dictu!--to make Aristotle jump right off the page at you. As a review of basic Scholastic terminology and theory, as a 'handbook' of philosophical backgrounds to the Commedia, and as an example of source scholarship at its very best, this is a book that every Dantist should read." Paul Spillenger, Speculum

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