Convivio

Convivio ( German feast ) is written by the Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri philosophical treatise. This comprehensive work was written around 1306, but remained unfinished.

Overview

It is in the Convivio to the first major, written in the Italian vernacular philosophical work. It was directed explicitly not to a university audience, but to laymen, which philosophy should be brought closer. The work should inform about the use of philosophical wisdom with reference to some comments on Dante 's canzoni, and includes four books. Book 1 is a general introduction, the books 2-4 serve as comments on each of Dante's canzone: Book 2 on Dante's first experience with the philosophy, Book 3 consists of a praise of philosophy and four book tries to answer the question what true needle ( verace nobilitade ) is. Here, Dante was based on many ancient and medieval philosophical sources.

With isolated references to the idea of ​​empire is the Convivio in certain fields close to Dante's later work entstandenem Monarchia. It explains the Holy Roman kings of the time since the fall of the Hohenstaufen were no longer comparable with the old imperial power and order. Frederick II was the last Emperor of the Romans had been ( ultimo imperadore de li Romani ). The abstract derivation of the idea of ​​a universal monarchy is done inter alia by reference to the ethics of Aristotle.

Editions and translations

• Dante Alighieri: The Banquet. Italian- German. Translated by Thomas Ricklin. Issued under the leadership of Ruedi Imbach, 4 volumes, Meiner, Hamburg 1996-2004.
• Dante's banquet. Translated and explained with an introduction by Constantin Sauter, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1911 ( new edition in Winkler Verlag, Munich, 1965).
• Dante Alighieri: Convivio. Edited by Franca Brambilla Ageno. 3 volumes. Le Lettere, Florence 1995.
• Dante Alighieri: Il Convivio. Ed. critica a cure di Maria Simonelli. Patron, Bologna 1966.