Immanuel the Roman's critique of Dante's Divine Comedy and Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed

This book is the first attempt to demonstrate that a deep, serious philosophical meaning underlies the immediate, light surface of Immanuel's poetry. An Epicurean, Immanuel lashed out against the most advanced and venerated religious ideas of his time: Christianity as expressed by Dante and the Judaism of Maimonides.