Poesia e filosofia : una lettura delle Disputationes di Cristoforo Landino

Concordia between poetry, philosophy, and theology on one hand, and the relationship between vita activa and vita contemplativa on the other, are classic topics of the Renaissance age. They are at the core of Landino's Disputationes Camaldulenses. In this paper I argue that in the Disputationes, the relationship and hierarchy between poetry, philosophy, and theology ultimately depend on the kind of knowledge underlying them, and accordingly, on the nature of the mind's faculties. In other words, I show that epistemological and psychological elements are introduced by Landino in order to decide who, between the poet, the philosopher, and the theologian, is entitled to the primacy of perfect knowledge. [Publisher's text]