Cosmological and Philosophical World of Dante Alighieri: «The Divine Comedy» as a Medieval Vision of the Universe

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Contents
Florence – the city of faith, art and politics
I. Dante Alighieri – science, politics and art
	1) Europe in the Middle Ages
	2) Florence – the city and its history
	3) Social conflicts and clashes
	4) Dante, Guelphs and Ghibellines
	5) Political desires of the poet
	6) The scientific way of Dante
	7) Dante’s works
II. The Convivio – theology and cosmology
	1) Aristotelianism in medieval Europe
	2) The power of philosophy
	3) The Noble Lady
	4) Cosmological models of the universe
	5) The medieval universe of knowledge
	6) The hierarchy of sciences in the model of the cosmos
	7) The consequences of the division of science  into the spheres of space
	8) The meeting of philosophy, faith and love
	9) Philosophy as a preparatio fidei
	10) The Banquet – the struggle of poetry, reason and faith
III. The Divine Comedy – major themes
	1) Alone in the the dark woods
	2) Inferno
	3) Purgatorium
	4) Paradise
IV. In the Dantesque theatrum mundi
	1) Journey to the afterlife – sources and inspirations
	2) Cosmology and geography in the world of Dante
	3) The Prime Unmoved Mover
	4) Dante’s spherical geometry
	5) The spiritual nature of the cosmos
	6) The world endowed with inherent sense
	7) Travel as an act of purification
	8) The scandal of existence of the Hell
	9) The Gentiles and children – the issue of limbo
	10) Cato as a model of heroism?
	11) Dante and Ulysses – a pilgrim and an explorer
	12) Aristotelianism, Thomism and Averroism 
of Dante Alighieri
	13) The difference of Dante’s world
Conclusion
Bibliography