The Banquet (Convivio)

Name: The Banquet (Convivio)
Author: Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

This book is in Italian.

Dante’s unfinished Banquet (c. 1304-1307): a commentary in vernacular prose on three of his canzoni, in four treatises (I, the proem, 13 chapters; II, 15; III, 15; IV, 30), with the canzoni “Voi che ’ntendendo”, “Amor che ne la mente” and “Le dolci rime d’amor”. The first treatise defends the use of the vernacular; the second sets out the four senses of Scripture and the heavens; the third praises Philosophy, the gentle lady; the fourth asks what true nobility is. The Italian is the Wikisource transcription, with paragraph numbers. English translations (Wicksteed 1903, Sayer 1887) divide the chapters differently and are not imported.

Source: The four treatises with the canzoni as verse (one line per verse, hard breaks) and Dante’s paragraph numbers. Wiki templates, footnote anchors and authority links are dropped. Chapter ids are trattato-N-cap-NN; the canzone of treatises II, III and IV stands as its own chapter before chapter 1.