Reference helps us in investigating the Divine Comedy to evidence these points. ![]() Here we discuss some of them, in order to investigate Dan te’s knowledge of Physics and, in particular, of Optics. Besides metaphysics, we can find in Dante’s poem several passages concerning the natural phenomena. In such a manner, when Dante in his allegorical journey comes to the Empyreum, a region beyond physical existence, the highest place of his medieval cosmology, the Comedy p resents its “sense of a complete harmonization of divine light, divine love, and divine life”. Dante’s philosophy, which is present in his poem, the Divine Comedy, was supported by a metaphysics, that we can define as a metaphysics of the Light of Divine Love. As Thomas Aquinas, Dante aimed that his listeners were practicing philosophy, but the poet was teaching through a poetry in Vulgar, rather than through a prose in Latin. He also knew very well the classic literature and the Neoplatonic thought. The theology came to him from the thought of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas, that Dante, in his Divine Comedy poem, places among the "Wise Spirits" in the Heaven of the Sun. ![]() He knew deeply the logic, physics and metaphysics of Aristotle. Dante Alighieri was one of the most educated persons of his time.
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