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Mapping Dante Scholarship

From one wheel to two

From one-centered view of reality, to e.g. the earth-centred and God-centred views held at the same time, never collapsed.

single view of Reality (usually material) the spiritual source of the fullness of all Reality
Single modeslide to see the gradual change (ESC to freeze)Dual perception
tu vederai mirabil consequenza
di maggio a più e di minore a meno,
in ciascun cielo, a sua intelligenza. you will see a marvellous correspondence, of greater to more and lesser to less, in each heaven to its Intelligence. Paradiso XXVIII, 76–78

The Mapping

Two axes: how many views of reality are held at once, and whether the reader has undergone spiritual experience.

Mystics, Saints & Intellectuals

Where great spiritual writers and modernist thinkers stand on the two axes.

Scholars & Dante Societies

The same x-axis, but now the y-axis asks: does this work acknowledge spiritual experience as real and relevant?