Open AccessA "Divina Comédia" e Petrus Alfonsi Hispanus O.P.: Outro Português Notável na Idade Média?
Author(s) -
Fernanda Pereira Mendes
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
guarecer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2183-9301
DOI - 10.21747/21839301/gua4a2
Subject(s) - portuguese , paradise , poetry , identity (music) , art , humanities , identification (biology) , order (exchange) , philosophy , classics , art history , literature , linguistics , botany , finance , economics , biology , aesthetics
This article points out the need to re-think Pedro Hispano's identity in the Divina Commedia, identified by the literary critic with the Portuguese Pope John XXI, who would be the only pontiff placed by Dante in Paradise. Neither the text of the poem nor the contemporary comments of Dante (14th century) allow such identification and, according torecent research carried out by Iberian scholars, the Pedro Hispano referred by Dante, for being the author of the «doze livrinhos» -a clear reference to the famous manual of logic Tractatusor SummulaeLogicales-, must be identified with a member of theDominican order. Based on the review of this bibliography, and adopting an interdisciplinary point of view, we now propose the possibility of identifying the author of the aforementioned work with the Portuguese Dominican friar Petrus Alfonsi Hispanus.