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	SEP: Dante Alighieri
		The record of Dante's thirty months of study, and the fullest expression of his philosophical thought, is the Convivio, in which commentary on a series of his own canzoni is the occasion for the expression of a range of ideas on ethics, politics, and metaphysics, as well as for extended discussion of philosophy itself.
		Dante describes the genesis of his love of philosophy, and reflects on the ability of philosophical understanding to mediate religious truth, tracing the desire for knowledge from its origin as an inherent trait of human nature to the point at which the love of wisdom expresses itself directly as love of God.
		Perhaps as significant as the arguments he musters to show the treacherous nature of riches and the uncertain course of nobility from one generation to another is the assertion of Dante's own authority, as philosopher and citizen, that is implied by his elaborate apology for speaking as he does [Ascoli, 35-41].
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/dante (8690 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dante Alighieri
		In August we find Dante at Padua, and some weeks later in Lunigiana, where, on 6 October he acted as the representative of the Marquess Franceschino Malaspina in making peace between his family and the Bishop of Luni.
		About this time (1306-08) he began the "Convivio", or "Banquet" in Italian prose, a kind of popularization of Scholastic philosophy in the form of a commentary upon his fourteen odes already mentioned.
		Only four of the fifteen projected treatises were actually written, an introduction and three commentaries.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04628a.htm (4394 words)

	Mid Term Papers: Term Papers on Philosophy
		It shows that Horatio only believes in what scholars say.
		It is believed that around 1307 he interrupts his unfinished work, Convivio, a reflection of his love poetry philosophy of the Roman tradition, to begin The Comedy (later known as The Divine Comedy).
		He writes a book called De Vulgari Eloquentia explaining his
	www.midtermpapers.com /Philosophy_6.html (1361 words)

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