Dante was the only great thing of the Italian Renaissance, everything else was decadence that is extolled by westerners automatically like Americans reflexively extol their Constution. But Dante is immortal, a true synthesis of the "the west" into something seamlessly unified. Dante is the apex of the west, its summit, after which it begins to decline.
Dante was the only great thing of the Italian Renaissance...
Adrian Reed
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Thomas Fisher
How can Dante be the apex when Milton was better?
Brayden Hughes
I wouldn’t say decline, I’d say “draw down,” like one might do on one’s home equity. The West continued to expand and achieve great things for hundreds of years after that, but it never put enough corn away for seed.
Carter Price
Dante should be looked down on for trying to place the Prophet in hell.
Gavin Morris
stfu Qasim
Lincoln Garcia
Milton's fascination with the devil is the fetor of individualism
Expanding to largely commercial rather than spiritual ends
Adrian Sullivan
Wrong (although Dante was great).
Rousseau (/the Enlightenment) started the Decline of the West (according to Spengler).
Carter Gray
The Age of Reason started during the European Renaissance and was an inexorable continuation of Renaissance humanism. Dante represented the summit, the highest degree to which Christianity could sublate paganism before paganism began to sublate Christianity
Carter Lewis
>Expanding to largely commercial rather than spiritual ends
Agreed.
Josiah Rogers
Joyce said if he was forced to choose between Shakespeare and Dante he would have chose Dante. Specifically for the DC. It really is the apex of literature
>I will go through hell and heaven to find you my love
Owen Taylor
Have you read Petrarca? How is he?
Daniel Bennett
it was his proper place bro
Michael Perry
>Dante
>Renaissance
my dude...
Nathaniel Cook
He was alright but I probably had a crummy translation
Parker Lopez
>I will go through hell and heaven to find you my love
That's YA romance tier, are you serious
Eli Carter
then why you only saved Dante (who is not even from the renaissance, little bit previous)? Petrarca's work was surprisingly influent back in his time
Thomas Allen
Yes, you're 100% correct. Nothing else compared.
Robert Morales
>no mention of Cavalcanti
>Prefering la Commedia over La Vita Nuova
Liam Hernandez
I would slap your face Numb .
Dante trascended reality but saying he was the only great thing in the Italian Renaissance is just a clueless take from a know nothing.
Can you even name any other author ya little stinky arab.
Hudson Cox
It also sounds amazing:
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Carter Young
Dante was a bit back, I was going to say the entire Renaissance was degeneration but I included him because he was the apex of the late Medieval worldview that degenerated in the Renaissance
Jeremiah Robinson
I think you misspelled Luís de Camões, bro
Angel Edwards
>Not realizing that the Divine Comedy was about the friends we made along the way