Danteho františkánstvo
Dante’s franciscanism

Summary/Abstract: Giuseppe Mazzotta, in defining the nature of creative energy found in the Franciscan movement, analyzes the multiple strain of the Franciscan tradition in Dante’s Comedy. He first examines how Dante responded to medieval Franciscanism by interpreting the meaning of Guido of Montefeltro in Inferno 27. He notes that in this particular character, Dante wishes to raise issues of papal power (and political theology), and most importantly trace the boundaries of the thirteenth-century debate between Franciscan theologians and secular masters. Specifically, the canto evokes the key questions of the thirteenth-century debate on the liberal arts and the Franciscan attack against logic and speculative grammar. He then turns to the cantos in which Dante refers to the Heaven of the Sun (Paradiso 10–13) and demonstrates how Dante explores further the sense of the Franciscan intellectual traditions, connecting the Divine Comedy’s concern with gifts to the Franciscan theology of spiritual gifts.

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