Between the Vita Nuova and the Divine Comedy, Dante set out to serve a banquet of knowledge to those who had no Latin. He takes his own canzoni and explains them at length, finding in the Lady of the poems the figure of Philosophy and ranging over astronomy, ethics, nobility and the soul. He finished four of the planned treatises.
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