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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 / by Anthony K. Cassell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cassell, Anthony K. (Anthony Kimber), 1941-2005.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Monarchia.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Vernani, Guido, active 1327. Reprobatio.
- Vernani, Guido.
- Catholic Church. Pope (1316-1334 : John XXII). Si fratrum.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholic Church--Italy--Political activity.
- Church and state--Italy--To 1500.
- Church and state.
- Italy--Politics and government--476-1268.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D. C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Dante's Monarchia and Vernani'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; Dante'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 Vernani's Censures; On Book 1; On Book 2; On Book 3; TRANSLATIONS OF THE TEXTS; DANTE'S Monarchia; Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; VERNANI'S Refutation; JOHN XXII'S Si fratrum; Notes
- BibliographyIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-388) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Contains:
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Monarchia. English
- Vernani, Guido, fl. 1327. Reprobatio. English.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1592-7
- OCLC:
- 922996267
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