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Dante Alighieri: Four Political Letters

Dante Alighieri: Four Political Letters

Honess, C. E.
Alighieri, Dante

Paperback

Series: Mhra Critical Texts, Book 6

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismItalian History

ISBN10: 0947623701
ISBN13: 9780947623708
Publisher: Texts and Translations
Published: Aug 10 2007
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

During the early years of the fourteenth century Italy was in turmoil. Factional conflicts divided citizens of the same city against one another, while the great medieval institutions of Church and Empire struggled to impose their authority over the peninsula. Against this political background, and in exile from his beloved Florence, Dante wrote the letters contained in this volume. The themes of the letters are those same political concerns which Dante expounds in his treatise the Monarchia and which will be familiar to any reader of the Commedia: his support for the Empire and his disapproval of the political ambitions of the papacy. But far from being dry or formulaic political tracts, these letters are impassioned and rhetorically sophisticated pieces of writing, which reflect, on many different levels, the concerns of Dante's great poetic masterpiece.

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