Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy

Dante''s metaphysics--his understanding of reality--is very different from our own. To present Dante''s ideas about the cosmos, or God, or salvation, or history, or poetry within the context of post-Enlightenment presuppositions, as is usually done, is thus to capture only imperfectly the essence of those ideas. The recovery of Dante''s metaphysics is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are t...