The Banquet

“The Banquet” (Il Convivio) is Dante Alighieri’s unfinished philosophical treatise written in the early 14th century. Blending poetry with prose, the work presents a series of commentaries on Dante’s own poems, using them as starting points for wide-ranging reflections on love, knowledge, virtue, and the soul’s ascent toward divine wisdom. Written in vernacular Italian rather than Latin, the text aimed to make philosophy accessible to a broader audience. "The Banquet" serves as a rich, intellectual bridge between Dante’s earlier lyrical poetry and the theological grandeur of the Divine Comedy.
"The Banquet" is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887.