HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Beatific Vision, Petrarch
14 Mar 2020
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Dante loved both ancients and medievals from virgil to thomas aquinas: beatific vision. Dante"s end goal was the beatific vision and to get there he needed mary and bernard. The idea that he could get there by himself never occurred: dante to petrarch. Dante"s world, filled with thomas and bernard was still medieval. Petrarch"s world was starting to approach a brand new renaissance. This is the italian humanist renaissance which even petrarch is early for. He helps to lay the humanistic groundwork: dante"s contribution. Dante was not irrelevant somehow to the renaissance. He was an inspirational figure to the later humanists even though he himself remained medieval: petrarch. A 14th century figure, he seems to anticipate many of the humanists interests that would come to define 15th century italy: dante and petrarch. Petrarch would be more interested than dante was in introspective reflection.
