'S'io m'intuassi, come tu t'inmii' (Par., IX 81): patterns of collective being in Dante.(Critical essay)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Took, John | Copyright information

'S'io m'intuassi, come tu t'inmii' (Par., ix. 81): Patterns of Collective Being in Dante by John Took

Dante's, in keeping with a certain kind of classicizing Christianity, is a sense of the soul's coming home to God in terms of an act of understanding, a notion tending towards the marginalization of the other in relation to self and the proper happiness of self. Simultaneously, he is a poet and philosopher of the collective life, at every point concerned with the structu...

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