Ruedi Imbach’s latest publication gathers ten studies on medieval thought. Eight of these have appeared recently – the earliest in 2002 – in journals such as Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie, Meister Eckhart Jahrbuch, Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch, Studi Medievali, Letture Classensi, L’Alighieri, and Revue de théologie et philosophie; four of these have been translated into Italian for the present volume. Two additional chapters, translated from German, appear in Randgänge der Mediävistik, Bd. 8 (Bern, Stämpfli Verlag 2019) and Schüler und Meister (Berlin, De Gruyter 2016).
A casual glance at the contents reveals that the last five chapters are dedicated to Dante. Chapter six (»Dante come allievo e maestro«) employs Aquinas’ discussion concerning the relation between teacher and student as a lens through which to understand Dante’s relationship with his teachers and students (viz., his readers); Imbach considers the encounter between Dante and Brunetto Latini in Inf. XV, his reliance upon Aristotle, and Beatrice and Virgil as teachers and more-than-teachers. Chapter seven investigates a phrase appearing in De vulgari eloquentia (»gratiosum lumen rationis«) by drawing together several of Dante’s works and situating his thought within a largely Aristotelian conceptual inheritance. [...]

Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch 95,1 (2020)