Étienne Gilson

Philosophical ideas of the Renaissance poet, as expressed in his "Divine Comedy", "Vita Nuova", "The banquet", and other works.

"The subject of this book is the long adventure of a young Frenchman brought up in the Catholic faith who was indebted to the Church for his entire education and to the University of Paris for his philosophical training, who found himself confronted by Clio with the task of discovering the precise nature of theology, and who, after devoting many years of his life to the discussion of this problem, found the answer too late to put it to use." [Preface]....