The Convivio: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Convivio, credited to Dante Alighieri, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Convivio by Dante Alighieri. (Translated by Philip H. Wicksteed.) Read in English by Martin Geeson; inflected; Lucretia B.; Algy Pug; Mary J; KHand; Leni The Convivio (The Banquet) is a philosophical treatise in the form of a prosimetrum. Dante combines prose and verse to explicate much of his philosophy and, more generally, the scientific, political, and historical thought of his day. Following the death of Beatrice in his earlier work the Vita nova (New Life), Dante here praises his new love, Lady Philosophy. The poet never finished the Convivio, and shortly after abandoning it began work on his Divine Comedy.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Convivio
• Author credits: Dante Alighieri
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 9:15:32

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• philosophy
• middle ages
• language
• dante
• dante at 750 audio collection

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 01 - Treatise I, Chapters 1-4 — 29:42
2. 02 - Treatise I, Chapters 5-8 — 21:00
3. 03 - Treatise I, Chapters 9-13 — 34:45
4. 04 - Ode I — 4:12
5. 05 - Treatise II, Chapters 1-6 — 25:29
6. 06 - Treatise II, Chapters 7-12 — 23:26
7. 07 - Treatise II, Chapters 13-16 — 23:57
8. 08 - Ode II — 5:28
9. 09 - Treatise III, Chapters 1-5 — 28:32
10. 10 - Treatise III, Chapters 6-9 — 26:02
11. 11 - Treatise III, Chapters 10-12 — 16:25
12. 12 - Treatise III, Chapters 13-15 — 19:42
13. 13 - Ode III — 7:50
14. 14 - Treatise IV, Chapters 1-5 — 35:00
15. 15 - Treatise IV, Chapters 6-9 — 28:06
16. 16 - Treatise IV, Chapters 10-13 — 25:24
17. 17 - Treatise IV, Chapters 14-17 — 25:16
18. 18 - Treatise IV, Chapters 18-22 — 25:23
19. 19 - Treatise IV, Chapters 23-26 — 24:38
20. 20 - Treatise IV, Chapters 27-30 — 21:49
21. 21 - Ode IV — 4:25
22. 22 - Ode V — 6:44
23. 23 - Ode VI — 5:17
24. 24 - Ode VII — 2:58

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