Dante and Epicurus
Joseph Anthony Mazzeo
N VIEW of Dante's continual reconsideration many artistic and intellectual questions, it is odd that G. Busnelli Vandelli, the latest editors most exhaustive commentators on Convivio, should interpret references in work to Epicurus Epicureanism light ninth tenth cantos Inferno. In both commentary apposite passages an appendix presumed doctrinal tolerance, they assume poet held same view throughout his life, Epicureans Convivio are archheretics Inferno who make soul die with body.' I hope demonstrate read back into what Dante clearly must have considered a correction early error. shall consider various sources definitions available him, relate as precisely possible changing views use different at times. We then discover knew two
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