Book

The Banquet

by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

76 chapters, about 81,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION. 700 words
2. CHAPTER I. 1,100 words
3. CHAPTER II. 1,000 words
4. CHAPTER III. 700 words
5. CHAPTER IV. 800 words
6. CHAPTER V. 800 words
7. CHAPTER VI. 600 words
8. CHAPTER VII. 800 words
9. CHAPTER VIII. 1,100 words
10. CHAPTER IX. 600 words
11. CHAPTER X. 800 words
12. CHAPTER XI. 1,200 words
13. CHAPTER XII. 800 words
14. CHAPTER XIII. 800 words
15. CHAPTER I. 1,000 words
16. CHAPTER II. 600 words
17. CHAPTER III. 500 words
18. CHAPTER IV. 800 words
19. CHAPTER V. 1,000 words
20. CHAPTER VI. 1,300 words
21. CHAPTER VII. 500 words
22. CHAPTER VIII. 800 words
23. CHAPTER IX. 1,000 words
24. CHAPTER X. 600 words
25. CHAPTER XI. 700 words
26. CHAPTER XII. 600 words
27. CHAPTER XIII. 600 words
28. CHAPTER XIV. 1,900 words
29. CHAPTER XV. 1,500 words
30. CHAPTER XVI. 1,100 words
31. CHAPTER I. 800 words
32. CHAPTER II. 1,300 words
33. CHAPTER III. 700 words
34. CHAPTER IV. 1,000 words
35. CHAPTER V. 1,700 words
36. CHAPTER VI. 1,100 words
37. CHAPTER VII. 1,500 words
38. CHAPTER VIII. 1,600 words
39. CHAPTER IX. 1,300 words
40. CHAPTER X. 700 words
41. CHAPTER XI. 1,500 words
42. CHAPTER XII. 900 words
43. CHAPTER XIII. 900 words
44. CHAPTER XIV. 1,100 words
45. CHAPTER XV. 2,500 words
46. CHAPTER I. 800 words
47. CHAPTER II. 1,400 words
48. CHAPTER III. 600 words
49. CHAPTER IV. 1,100 words
50. CHAPTER V. 1,500 words
51. CHAPTER VI. 1,200 words
52. CHAPTER VII. 1,400 words
53. CHAPTER VIII. 1,200 words
54. CHAPTER IX. 1,500 words
55. CHAPTER X. 700 words
56. CHAPTER XI. 1,100 words
57. CHAPTER XII. 1,600 words
58. CHAPTER XIII. 1,400 words
59. CHAPTER XIV. 1,300 words
60. CHAPTER XV. 1,600 words
61. CHAPTER XVI. 1,000 words
62. CHAPTER XVII. 1,000 words
63. CHAPTER XVIII. 500 words
64. CHAPTER XIX. 800 words
65. CHAPTER XX. 900 words
66. CHAPTER XXI. 1,100 words
67. CHAPTER XXII. 1,800 words
68. CHAPTER XXIII. 1,300 words
69. CHAPTER XXIV. 1,500 words
70. CHAPTER XXV. 1,200 words
71. CHAPTER XXVI. 1,200 words
72. CHAPTER XXVII. 1,700 words
73. CHAPTER XXVIII. 1,400 words
74. CHAPTER XXIX. 1,100 words
75. CHAPTER XXX. 500 words
76. ON THE DATE OF THE CONVITO 200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Compassion
• Heaven
• Latin
• Literal (mathematical logic)
• Neutrality (philosophy)
• Nobility
• Passive intellect
• Reverence (emotion)
• Socratic method
• Solomon
• Thought (essay)

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