Dante
Late in the 13th century, the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri acknowledged
the dominance that scholasticism had attained by incorporating the fruits
of scholastic philosophy into his monumental vernacular epic, The
Divine Comedy. This leaf from the Purgatorio describes the
pageant of salvation in the coded language of allegory.
Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio. Italy (Florence),
fourteenth century.
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