Marcelo Martins BARREIRA

Original title: Comentário de João da Cruz ao verso com ânsias em amores inflamados no segundo livro da Noite Escura

Published in Mystic and Millenarianism in Middle Ages

Keywords: João da Cruz, Love, Medieval Philosophy, Mystic, soul.

The article is about the will in mystical contemplation. From the chapters 11-13 of the John of the Cross’s work entitled The Dark Night. There is in this book a original reading of John of the Cross on the relationship between will and intellect, especially with the "inflammation of love" in the soul.