The translation of Dante's Latin here maintains a balance between technical precision and read- ability; the commentary guides the nonspecialist through a maze of scholastic arguments and authorities, while for the specialist it confronts the critical cruxes of the work, such as its date and pur- pose, the author's apparent Averroism, and what he thought the emperor owed to the pope. [...] Italianists, who rightly claim Dante as the principal ornament of their province, cannot ignore his Latin works, of which the Monarchia is the most perfect; for them, the book is a useful supplement to the Commedia and the Convivio. [...] The preparation of the commentary itself, together with the accompanying translation, began in the spring of 1991 and continued intermittently over the next five years. [...] Most likely this unsolicited critique was part of the attack on Dante mounted by the papal legate Bertrand du Poujet about the year 1329- Boccaccio, in his Life of Dante, says that the supporters of Louis of Bavaria used the Monarchia to prove that the emperor's authority was derived from God without any intermediary, and Boccaccio says that the legate consequently condemned the work as heretical [...] Today these rules are best known as expounded by Paul Maas.25 When the author's original manuscript does not survive, the goal of the textual critic is to reconstruct the text as it was in the archetype, the manuscript that is the ultimate knowable source of all subsequent copies.
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 8
- Preface 10
- List of Abbreviations 14
- Introduction 16
- Monarchia 46
- Book 1 48
- 1. General prologue to the treatise 48
- 2. Preliminaries to the investigation 52
- 3. The goal of mankind 58
- 4. Mankind needs peace 70
- 5. The goal-directed group needs a leader 74
- 6. Mankind ought to be subordinated to a leader 80
- 7. Mankind as microcosm 84
- 8. Mankind should imitate God's unity 86
- 9. Mankind should imitate cosmic order 88
- 10. Mankind needs a supreme judge 92
- 11. Monarchy maximizes justice 96
- 12. Monarchy maximizes freedom 110
- 13. The monarch is best able to dispose others to virtue 116
- 14. Mankind is ruled better by one than by many 120
- 15. Mankind needs a unity of wills 126
- 16. Mankind was best governed under Augustus 132
- Book 2 136
- 1. The purpose and method of book 2 136
- 2. The will of God determines what is right 142
- 3. The Roman people were the most noble 148
- 4. The Roman people were favored by miracles 160
- 5. The Roman people intended the common welfare 168
- 6. The Roman people were fitted by nature to rule 186
- 7. How human reason can discover divine judgments about human affairs 192
- 8. Rome won the race for world empire 200
- 9. Rome was favored by God in her duels 210
- 10. Christ would not have been born under an unjust rule 224
- 11. By calcifying Christ, the Roman Empire punished Adam's sin justly 234
- Book 3 242
- 1. Above all, Dante seeks the truth 242
- 2. God does not will impediments to nature 248
- 3. Decretalists and others are excluded from the debate 252
- 4. The sun and the moon 266
- 5. Levi and Judah prefigure Church and Empire 278
- 6. Samuel as God's vicar 282
- 7. The gifts of the Magi 288
- 8. Peter's power to loose and bind 292
- 9. The two swords 298
- 10. Constantine and Charlemagne 308
- 11. The pope as the measure of all men 324
- 12. The Empire is prior to the Church 334
- 13. The Church lacks the power to confer authority on the emperor 342
- 14. Political power is contrary to the nature of the Church 348
- 15. Only God elects and confirms the emperor 354
- Appendix: Dante's Monarchia Paraphrased 372
- Bibliography 414
- Indices 456
- A 456
- B 457
- C 458
- D 460
- E 461
- F 462
- G 463
- H 464
- I 465
- J 465
- K 466
- L 466
- M 467
- N 468
- O 469
- P 469
- Q 472
- R 472
- S 473
- T 475
- U 476
- V 476
- W 476
- X 477
- Y 477
- Z 477
