ed io che sono?

speaking of not having to cook for yourself. dante surely lived fairly well in florence and was fed while he worked for nobles across italy etc etc but i'm also wondering if in his poorest periods there's a chance he had to cook for himself. even just once. probably historically unlikely but. you can't prove it didn't happen can you

one of the things i admittedly think about way too often maybe is how the fuck people managed to know and learn so much in, say, dante's times. like yes i know that not having to work to survive or not having to do housechores or raise children and having access to resources are all huge factors of why people got to learn so much, and books being materially harder to make than the present day must have favoured the necessity to memorize things, and the people i'm thinking about were exceptional minds of their time for a reason, but i'm wondering about any potential neurological differences in how people learned and remembered information back then and how we do it now. also another tangentially related thing is how normal it was back then to have a multidisciplinary approach, i feel like our modern times have compartmentalized knowledge to the point that even fields that are close to one another don't talk to each other anymore. how is knowledge supposed to flow in these conditions question mark. philosophy departments should be aware of what is going on in letters and medicine and compsci should be concerned with understanding linguistics and civil engineering.

all of these dante databases are missing the chance to call them "dantabase" or some shit like that

you can navigate all of the divine comedy's commentaries at once and i did not know about it. i'm losing my mind

aristotle:plato=guido:dante. sort of. if you get what i mean

#my prof said i can talk about guido in my presentation #my guido 🔥