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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957648103321

Autore

Cassell Anthony K (Anthony Kimber), <1941-2005.>

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D. C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8132-1592-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Dante Alighieri <1265-1321.>

VernaniGuido <fl. 1327.>

Disciplina

320/.01

Soggetti

Church and state - Italy - To 1500

Italy Politics and government 476-1268

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-388) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.