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Jason M. Baxter - Infinite Beauty of the World, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Infinite Beauty of the World

Dante’s Encyclopedia and the Names of God

Av Jason M. Baxter

Del 4 i serien Leeds Studies on Dante

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This book proposes a radically new interpretation of the Comedy’s encyclopedism by focusing on Dante’s work in light of the medieval imago mundi tradition. The work opens with a discussion of how the Florentine poet transgressed every generic boundary in his effort to gather «into one volume» a vast and varied set of creatures, places, landscapes, historical and mythological persons, weather conditions, and arts. It then goes on to show that this extraordinary encyclopedic breadth should be understood in the terms of Boethian and Augustinian spiritual exercises of envisioning the whole world in the mind’s eye, which themselves became the interpretive framework for the spiritual ends behind medieval encyclopedic texts. By bringing attention to Latin Platonism and twelfth-century authors (such as Alan of Lille, Bernard Silvestris, William of Conches, Hugh of St. Victor, and Thierry of Chatres), this book provides compelling new readings of the De vulgari eloquentia, as well as provocative insights into key figures (such as Brunetto Latini, Pier della Vigna, and Ulysses) and key passages (Purgatorio 28, Paradiso 26, and Paradiso 33).
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Jason M. Baxter is Associate Professor of Humanities at Wyoming Catholic College. Trained at the University of Notre Dame, his research has focused on the Boethian commentary tradition, the twelfth-century poet, Bernard Silvestris, and the influence of Latin platonism on Dante. He is also author of the introductory A Beginner’s Guide to the Divine Comedy, published in 2018.

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«The Infinite Beauty of the World offers a fascinating interpretive journey towardsricher appreciation of the Commedia as a cosmological poem. Baxter compellinglyinvites us to encounter Dante anew as a poet who seeks to show his readers the wholeof reality while embracing, in wonder, its divine mystery.» (Vittorio Montemaggi, Senior Lecturer in Religion and the Arts, King’s College London,author of Reading Dante’s Commedia as Theology: Divinity Realized in Human Encounter)«Jason Baxter’s new book provides the first extensive study of the tradition of theimago mundi and its significance for Dante. Drawing on a wealth of materials – biblicalcommentaries, glosses on ancient poets, spiritual treatises, and encyclopaedic works ofvarious kinds – Baxter explores how medieval culture developed a rich set of practicesof mental visualization so as to ‹see› the cosmos in its totality from above, and he showshow Dante exploited such traditions. Elegantly written and richly documented, Baxter’sbook offers an important new approach to Dante’s encyclopedism.» (Simon Gilson, Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian, University of Oxford)

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