Vita e Pensiero

The importance of the concept of law in medieval culture and conscience is undeniable and this emerges strongly in Dante’s thinking. On the one hand, it is a call to that «ratio scripta» which can certainly be associated with the great Roman tradition, which Dante’s time had effectively recovered...

Through the use of juridical sources, in his commentary on the Divine Comedy Pietro Alighieri analyzes the episodes of Dante’s work from a criminal perspective and stresses the importance of the penal aspects of Dante’s Hell...

Among Dante’s Epistole, the third and the fourth provide us with an autobiographical tale, expressed in rhymes that are attached to, about the vicissitudes and love experiences in the life of the exiled Florentine poet...

The paper is divided into six sections. In the first two it reconstructs, from a historiographical perspective, the path that led to hypothesize a forgery; in the third and in the fourth it demonstrates how the Questio deals with topics that were widely debated in the previous and contemporary treatises and does not respond, instead, to discussions attributable to subsequent works such as Buridano’s Questiones...

A possible link between Dante and the contemporary Pakistani philosopher Muhammad Iqbal (1873 [or 1877] -1938) lies in the heavenly journey they did in search of the Self and of the transcendent – a highly symbolic journey. After studying the hermeneutical character of symbolization, the essay will study Dante’s philosophy of Light as described in the Paradiso in its neo-platonic implications referring also to the Pseudo-Dionysius and to al-Farabi...

The studies on Dante’s thought published by the «Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica» reflect the line adopted by the Journal, which has followed a path that from the recovery of the Aristotelian- Thomistic metaphysical system has come to the fruitful encounter with the different instances emerging from time to time from contemporary philosophy. From the pioneering studies of Bruno Nardi to the all-out defense of Dante’s Thomism supported by Cordovani and Busnelli, passing through the intellectual honesty of Vanni Rovighi and the philological competence of Grabmann, the Rivista takes a less ideological path and is more open to a constructive confrontation with the various philosophical currents...

Primo fascicolo del 2016