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r207tm7457g	Xiaoyi Zhang	Conservi sani li affetti suoi: Dante's Education of Affects	2022		.txt	text/plain	233	6	34	As I demonstrate, in conversation with the tradition of affective piety in his own stories of salvation and redemption, Dante brings important thinkers of affective piety—Augustine, Anselm, Bernard, Aquinas, and Bonaventure—onto stage in the Commedia as characters, who, with their life stories full of affections, and with their expressed affections towards each other and towards the pilgrim, teach Dante about affection and faith. This dissertation examines Dante's ideas on emotions or affects, and the literary, moral, and spiritual significance of affectivity in his writings— in the Commedia and the Vita nova—in the context of medieval affective piety.	cache/r207tm7457g.txt	txt/r207tm7457g.txt