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The Monarchia controversy : an historical study with accompanying translations of Dante Alighieri's Monarchia, Guido Vernani's Refutation of the Monarchia composed by Dante and Pope John XXII's bull, Si fratrum /

"The Monarchia Controversy provides both the background to the imperial and ecclesiastical machinations that drove Dante Alighieri to begin penning the Monarchia in 1318 and also the subsequent history of the efforts by papal authorities to ban the book after the writer's death. Dante'...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cassell, Anthony K. (Anthony Kimber), 1941-2005
Corporate Author: Catholic Church. Pope (1316-1334 : John XXII)
Other Authors: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Vernani, Guido, active 1327
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Danteâ€?s Monarchia and Vernaniâ€?s Refutation in Context
  • Prolegomena: The Crisis and Its Major Players
  • 1. Tiara and Scepter
  • 2. Dante in the Eye of the Storm
  • The Logician and the Prophet
  • Danteâ€?s Forensic Procedure
  • The Perils of Posthumous Burning
  • The Early Manuscripts and the Fortune of the Monarchia
  • Ecclesiastical Ambition, Terror, and Spleen
  • 3. The Monarchia and Vernaniâ€?s Censures
  • On Book 1
  • On Book 2
  • On Book 3
  • TRANSLATIONS OF THE TEXTS
  • DANTEâ€?S MonarchiaBook 1
  • Book 2
  • Book 3
  • VERNANIâ€?S Refutation
  • JOHN XXIIâ€?S Si fratrum
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index