Dante’s experience of Beatrice was an experience of the miraculous and divine – of something that is…

Dante&rsquo;s experience of Beatrice was an experience of the miraculous and divine – of something that is beyond all finite experience of objects and that cannot be adequately expressed in reductively objectivizing terms. This is why Dante had need of a subjective language, the language of lyric, which, apart from what it says about any specific objective referent or content, expresses feeling by…