Question of the Water and the Land (Quaestio de aqua et terra)

Name: Question of the Water and the Land (Quaestio de aqua et terra)
Author: Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

This book is in Latin.

Dante’s academic disputation at Verona on 20 January 1320 on the form and position of the two elements, water and earth: whether water in its sphere stands higher than the land. The work survives only in a Venice print of 1508 and its authenticity was long debated; most scholars now accept it. Text of La Wikisource.

Source: The whole text as one chapter; the wiki markup is dropped. Paragraph numbering is not in this transcription. The English of Wicksteed (1904) and A. C. White (1903) is OCR only and is not imported.