Dai volgarizzamenti agli scrittori: «conversare» nel «Convivio» di Dante
Conversatio / communicatio in Middle Ages
means not a linguistic, but a moral condivision. By developing
this concept of conversazione, in the third book of
the Convivio, Dante reveals to the reader the real essence
of Aristotelian knowledge: the Wisdom beloved by Solomon
in the Bible. In Aristotelian terms, he says, Love is
the «form» of the relationship between man and Knowledge
because Wisdom loves the one who loves her (III
xi). Thus, the desire for knowledge quoted by Dante at the