Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Banquet
    Unavailable
    The Banquet
    Unavailable
    The Banquet
    Ebook348 pages4 hours

    The Banquet

    By Dante Alighieri

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Between 1304 and 1307 Dante wrote Convivio, or "The Banquet," a philosophical essay which is part poetry and part prose. It is in four parts, or treatises, and is unfinished. It is the record of Dante's thirty months of study in the fields of philosophy, ethics, politics and metaphysics. Dante outlines the origin of his love of philosophy, tracing a love of knowledge to its manifestation as a love of God.

    The "Banquet" in question here is Dante's offering: a banquet philosophical insight and wisdom. The guests are those who are hungry for knowledge but are too entrenched in politics to pursue it. Hence why Dante wrote "The Banquet" in Italian (as opposed to Latin), so that the average man could understand it. To extend the metaphor, Dante means for the poetry to represent the entree of a meal, while the prose serves as the bread. Buon appetito!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSheba Blake Publishing
    Release dateDec 30, 2013
    ISBN9781304670182
    Unavailable
    The Banquet
    Author

    Dante Alighieri

    Dante was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy is widely considered the greatest work of Italian literature.

    Read more from Dante Alighieri

    Related to The Banquet

    Related ebooks

    General Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Circles Of The Damned

      Sep 1, 2021

      For centuries artists have mined Inferno for raw materials, but now in the sweltering days of the Anthropocene we are enacting it. The post Circles of the Damned appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      Gulliver’s Travels

      Oct 30, 2018

      Gulliver’s Travels
      5 min read

    • Article

      Uncertainty

      Jun 6, 2022

      Until philosophers are Kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to

      2 min read

    • Article

      Letter From The Founder

      Dec 8, 2022

      Letter From The Founder
      4 min read

    • Article

      Make Sure Your Last Words Really Matter

      Mar 8, 2023

      Every profession has its particular joys and particular trials. That's certainly true, for us clergy, of funeral or memorial service eulogies. They can delight and enlighten, revealing marvellous un-looked-for truths about the deceased, her life, wor

      3 min read

    • Article

      Wonder And Doubt

      Aug 10, 2020

      Wonder And Doubt
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Modern Way Of Mourning

      Sep 29, 2022

      I WATCHED THE OLDER GENTLEMAN FUMBLE with his ticket. A thick tie knot just short of his shirt’s top button spoke of a return to formality of dress for someone now long used to the comfortable sartorial consolations of retirement. He had a day Travel

      6 min read

    • Article

      Grappling With Evil

      Oct 28, 2021

      Grappling With Evil
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Myth Of Sisyphus

      Aug 10, 2020

      The Myth Of Sisyphus
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Larger Idea Of Love

      Mar 7, 2022

      The Larger Idea Of Love
      5 min read

    • Article

      Ingenious: Albert Camus

      Jun 29, 2017

      I had always dreamed of meeting Albert Camus and so was thrilled when he appeared at Lucey’s Lounge, a dark and yellowy lit bar in Brooklyn. The Algerian writer had graciously agreed, or so it seemed, to be interviewed about absurdity, the concept in

      14 min read

    • Article

      Housed In Separate Identities

      Sep 6, 2021

      Housed In Separate Identities
      5 min read

    • Article

      On Love

      Mar 7, 2022

      On Love
      7 min read

    • Article

      Editorial

      Dec 30, 2019

      Editorial
      1 min read

    • Article

      Building A fortean Library

      Oct 7, 2021

      “Life after death will hardly be worth calling life if it remains merely static. That is one reason why nobody believes any more in the playing of harps.” So writes our chosen author, the late Paul Beard – reminding one of the excellent Rabbi Isodore

      8 min read

    • Article

      On Apocalyptic Poetry

      Jun 25, 2018

      On Apocalyptic Poetry
      14 min read

    • Article

      On Writing Poems Facing Into The Broken World

      Mar 1, 2020

      Kaveh Akbar and Jane Hirshfield have been in a running e-mail conversation since January 2016, when Akbar first contacted Hirshfield about doing an interview in his Divedapper series, before his first, widely acclaimed book, Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Al

      16 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Jul 1, 2022

      After centuries of deferralto the white sky cloud cover God, who kept me on orange alert,babbling for mercies that were batted away sloppilylike dustballs in the wake of a sock, I turned to the Divine Creatrix,who built the short night, I was convinc

      2 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems by Geoffrey Hill

      Dec 15, 2018

      62. Why such irony in re the mystical context when a graph of even the most commonplace exchange would appear perplexed; when we drop out from the plainest statement in the posture of a bat? So, decide to make something of that, the style to resemble

      2 min read

    Reviews for The Banquet

    4/5

    19 ratings4 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 2/5
      Oorspronkelijk Convivio. Filosofisch werk, 1304-1308, maar gedeeltelijk afgewerkt.Eerder saaie traktaten over het gebruik van de volkstaal, tekstuitleg, enz.
    • 2/5
      Oorspronkelijk Convivio. Filosofisch werk, 1304-1308, maar gedeeltelijk afgewerkt.Eerder saaie traktaten over het gebruik van de volkstaal, tekstuitleg, enz.
    • 5/5
      First: I doubt anyone in the entire world can manage to build any argument against Dante capacity. He is a genius, his writing is awesome. With this book he tries to explain aspects of the interpreations of his poems (he said his poems have four possible interpretations) and his love for philosophy. A notable side, Dante is a gentle and not moody guy. He is not in hell here. He also defends the use of provencal so he can educated the masses, more ignorant. A man years ahead of his time.
    • 4/5
      A fascinating, and amazing, piece of literature by Dante. This proves that he was more of a master than just with poetry.