Convivio

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Convivio is a philosophical and didactic work by Dante Alighieri that combines prose and poetry to explore ethics, politics, and knowledge in the vernacular Italian language.

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Convivio canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf didactic work
medieval literary work
philosophical work
aim to defend the use of the vernacular in learned discourse
to make knowledge accessible beyond Latin-educated elites
to provide philosophical instruction in the vernacular
approximateCompositionPeriod c. 1304–1307
audience lay readers without Latin education
author Dante Alighieri
contains poems with prose commentaries
countryOfOrigin Italy
dateWritten early 14th century
discusses the concept of nobility
the hierarchy of sciences
the nature of human happiness
the relationship between love and knowledge
the role of philosophy in human life
form prosimetrum
genre prose and poetry
historicalContext Dante’s exile from Florence
influencedBy Aristotle
Biblical tradition
Boethius
St. Thomas Aquinas
surface form: Thomas Aquinas
language Italian vernacular
Tuscan vernacular
literaryInnovation use of vernacular for philosophical exposition
literaryMovement Scholasticism
literaryPeriod Middle Ages
numberOfCompletedBooks four
originalScript Latin alphabet
philosophicalOrientation Aristotelian
Thomistic
placeOfComposition exile from Florence
relatedWork Divine Comedy
Vita nuova
structure planned as fifteen books
subject epistemology
ethics
knowledge
language
love
nobility
philosophy
politics
titleTranslation The Banquet
workStatus unfinished

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Dante Alighieri notableWork Convivio
Durante notableWork Convivio
subject surface form: Durante degli Alighieri