Zygmunt G. Baranski, Dante e i segni: saggi per una storia intellettuale di Dante Alighieri.(Book Review)

Publication: Medium Aevum

Publication Date: 22-SEP-02

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(Naples: Liguori, 2000), xii + 231 pp. ISBN 88-207-3129-0. Eur. 15.49.

Uniting this somewhat disparate set of essays is the notion that Dante, faced with a choice between what amount to alternative epistemological and, by extension, discursive possibilities, opts for understanding by way, not of the ratiocinative apparatus of the Neoperipatetic luminaries of his day, but of the kind of theological semiosis going back to Paul and developed systematically by Augustine, and involving a return to the eternal verities by way, not so much of argumentation, as of a proper and properly pious meditation on the vestigia Dei as manifest in the created order. In pursuit of this idea, unfolded in its...

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