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In this study, Steven Botterill explores the intellectual relationship between the greatest poet of the fourteenth century, Dante, and the greatest spiritual writer of the twelfth century, Bernard of Clairvaux. Botterill analyses the narrative episode involving Bernard as a character in the closing cantos of the Paradiso, against the background of his medieval reputation as a contemplative mystic, devotee of Mary, and, above all, a preacher of outstanding eloquence. Botterill draws on a wide range of materials to establish and illustrate the connections between Bernard's reputation and his portrayal in Dante's poem. Botterill's fresh approach to the analysis of the whole episode will provoke the reader to re-evaluate the significance and implications of Bernard's presence in the Commedia.

Italian literature --- Thematology --- Christian spirituality --- Dante Alighieri --- Bernard of Clairvaux --- Mysticism in literature --- Mystiek in de literatuur --- Mystique dans la littérature --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- Mysticism in literature. --- Dante Alighieri, --- Bernard, --- In literature. --- Influence. --- Influence --- Dante Alighieri, - 1265-1321. - Paradiso. - Canto 31-33. --- Bernard, - of Clairvaux, Saint - 1090 or 91-1153, - in fiction, drama, poetry, etc. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Bernard de Clairvaux, --- Bernardo, --- Bernardus, --- Bernhard, --- Bernhardus, --- Clairvaux, Bernard of,