In brief, both Aristotle and Dante believed that man has a natural desire for the knowledge and that his love for the truth is imprinted in himself since his birth. Afterword, Dante reinforces this concept in the Divine Comedy: "That mortal, who was at his birth impress /So strongly from this star, that of his deeds/The nations shall take note. His unripe age/Yet holds him from observance; for these wheels." (Paradise XVII, 75-78). For Dante man, who is impressed at his birth, has the duty to increase the common heritage of the knowledge, giving the best of his own abilities and culture, supporting the contribution for the knowledge coming from the ancients and at whose source Dante himself had drawn his own knowledge. In summary, Dante
