Monarchia

Se il latino è Grammatica e il volgare è lingua naturale, il De vulgari eloquentia è una Bibbia ancora illibata, immune ai germi del protestantesimo; scritta in latino per i cattedratici comuni mortali, esalta il volgare come lingua del corpo e dello spirito, eleggendola a idioma dominante delle ita Leggi tutto

The author chooses as an aim of his arguments the concept that political authority emanated from the pope's figure. Thus seeking to justify his desire for an Italian empire where, despite the Providential duality (happiness on earth and eternal happiness), the two authorities - spiritual and politic Leggi tutto

On offer is a dearth of poetic and rhetorical value speckled with false etymologies, category errors, double standards, motivated reasoning, and misquotations aplenty. That aside, the Achilles heel of syllogistic reasoning is that any swarm of far-fetched premises may be deployed to force a logical

There is just something so entertaining about books from the 13th century or there about. Aristotle has recently been rediscovered in the West while Maimonides and Aquinas use the same kind of argumentation which probably inspired Dante’s methodology in this simple, delightful and entertaining expos Leggi tutto

I feel a little cheated by this book. I had hoped to find a book with the latest academic thought on Dante's political theory and a good translation with plenty of notes to expand and explain the context and sources of the work. Well HARD LUCK, Derek. Although this work was published in 2012 and that Leggi tutto

¡QUÉ PERFECCIÓN! Maravilla, el ejercicio silogístico es perfecto. Sueño aprender a disertar con esto, ¡DIEZ DE CINCO!

A few things to note, most of which are actually beyond my ability to elaborate more: 1) Modern people might find Book 1 a touch too "strong". One may as well remind oneself of the background at that time: all the struggles between the Church and the Holy Roman Empire, within the Florence Republic be Leggi tutto

This was a fascinating religio-political tract by the most brilliant poet of the last 2,000 years, Dante Alighieri. In De Monarchia, Dante makes the bold argument for a single world-emperor who should assume political authority over the entire civilized world. Under him the governments of individual Leggi tutto

Even though Dante Alighieri claims that the ultimate goal is peace by means of a single and absolute temporal monarchy (empire), I figured, while reading Book I, that Book II would have assertions like "Proof enough has been given that the Romans were by nature ordained for sovereignty. Therefore the Leggi tutto

It is sad to think that this sober and astonishing critique on the foundations of the Church was included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum; for Dante, with sublime and shrewd power of analysis, takes to task the perennial questions on the real power and role of the Roman Catholic Church in the aff Leggi tutto