ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests the existence in Dante's Paradiso of a different notion of memory in the character of Dante the traveller, a purely intellectual memory, which participates in the pilgrim's ascent through the heavenly spheres toward the beatific vision. While investigating the pattern of both types of desire, Pertile shows how the pilgrim's desire to know becomes integrated in the search for God, which is the ultimate goal and the sustaining force of the Paradiso as a whole. The chapter briefly show how, in Augustine, the activity of the Trinitarian structure of the soul is deeply intertwined with the dynamic principle of desire, which, as in Dante's Paradiso, is the moving force behind the soul's path toward knowledge and toward God. The chapter also briefly reiterates the philosophical identification between memory and mind/intellect. It investigates the possible existence and activity of memory as a faculty of the soul in its intellectual dimension.
