Lumen Dantis et Lumen Margaretae: el imaginario compartido por Dante Alighieri y Marguerite dicta Porete

Abstract

In this article we compare the images used by Dante Alighieri with the ones used by her “heretical” contemporary Marguerite Porete (†1310) for expressing the final contact-vision of God. We will analyze the use of the images of light, the gradual ascent and the knot in both authors, putting it into the context of the theological doctrines about the visio Dei. This will allow us, in the first place, to claim a shared cultural background based in the conception of God as a visible being and, in the second, to discuss the historical implications of heteredoxy/ortodoxy in the Commedia and the Mirouer.