The Banquet by Dante Alighieri, Fiction, Classics, Literary

Dante has been called& 34;the Father of the Italian language& 34;. In Italy, Dante is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta (& 34;the Supreme Poet& 34;) and il Poeta; he, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called& 34;the three fountains& 34; or& 34;the three crowns& 34;. Let those come to us -- whosoever they be -- who, pressed by the management of civil and domestic life, have felt the human hunger for True Knowledge . . . and let all of us sit together at one table -- for the Banquet! Written in his final days, after the completion of his masterful Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri& 39;s The Banquet presents many of his most compelling thoughts as to how a life of maturity and civility should be conducted.