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100 1 _aDante Alighieri,
_d1265-1321
245 1 4 _aThe Banquet (Il Convito)
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convivio
500 _aRelease date is 2004-07-09
508 _aProduced by Paul Murray, Marc André Selig and PG Distributed Proofreaders
520 _a"The Banquet (Il Convito)" by Dante Alighieri is an unfinished work written between 1304 and 1307. This vernacular encyclopedia explores philosophy, politics, science, and history through four books combining poetry and prose commentary. After Beatrice's death, Dante celebrates his new love for Lady Philosophy, defends writing in Italian rather than Latin, and challenges aristocratic notions of nobility. The work reveals Dante's intellectual development between his earlier "Vita Nuova" and the "Divine Comedy," offering crucial insight into his philosophical and artistic evolution. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aPhilosophy
700 1 _aMorley, Henry,
_d1822-1894
700 1 _aSayer, Elizabeth Price
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12867
999 _c54261
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