Fronteras estéticas de la analogía medieval. Del adorno retórico a la belleza del verbo

The reflection about analogy and simile invaded all the fields of the medieval thought. Rhetoric and Theology shared a unic terminology, but these disciplines showed different expositions concerning aesthetic basis of similitudo. Rhetoric defined all the forms of the simile like instruments for elocutio. On the contrary, the scholastic teologians, beginning with the analogy between God and his creatures, discovered in the universe the way for a reflection about the divine pulcritudo. The evident opportunity of a conciliation between these disciplines was not taken in the Middle Ages, with rare exceptions.