Entre cielo y tierra: la ligazón y el abismo en el Convivio

Abstract

This article goes through the main ideas in Dante’s Convivio interpreting them as a sample of a historical desacralization crisis caused by the spreading of the commercial production mode, which translates into an intellectual crisis where the author tries to reformulate the link binding Heaven with Earth, meaning the matrix itself of feudal sacralised ideological unconsciousness. To do so, Dante goes through the process of creation-generation of the World, on the one hand; and the process of knowledge, taking mankind to heavenly Wisdom. In doing this, Dante unsuccessfully attempts to create a ‘civil sacralisation’ or a ‘commercial sacralisation’. Without this, in any case, he wouldn’t have been able to later write the Commedia