Dante and Governance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 September 1997
- ISBN 9780198159117
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 225x146x20 mm
- Weight 382 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A majestic socio-political message underlies Dante's Divine Comedy: how, in a warring Europe, could mankind create a universal peace under which humanity might fully develop its talents? In Dante and Governance, leading scholars in the field discuss major preoccupations reflected in Dante's great poem, ranging from free-will and personal responsibility to Papal power, from popular sovereignty to French imperialism, from royal justice to the role of women.
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Dante and Governance brings to the most grandiose of Dante's messages in the Divine Comedy critical viewpoints whose originality would, at any time, constitute an important addition to Dante scholarship, but the book is also notable for an approach which during the course of its composition spontaneously evolved as pragmatic and historical, particularly when seen against much contemporary Dante cricism. It explores Dante's breathtaking ambition to convince Europe's rulers and their subjects to create and embrace a universal peace, guaranteed by Pope and Holy Roman Emperor, which might afford serenity for mankind fully to develop its wonderful potentialities. In that context, a group of scholars, internationally known for their expertise not only in Dante studies but also in medieval literature and history, was invited to Oxford to discuss the poet's objectives. Each chose to argue a case from a close reading of Dante's own texts, using clear and jargon-free lamguage. Those deliberations created a well-focused and coherent group of papers on a variety of subjects, ranging from an aesthetic appreciation of Dante's depiction of free-will and moral responsibility, to a feminist perception of his attitude to the role of women in fourteenth-century Florentine public life.
The theme of Dante and governance (of the soul as well as of the state) is richly illuminated by this volume, while every essay in it either deepens our insight or provokes our thought, usually both. The book is a fine tribute to its dedicatee, the late Cecil Grayson. s
Table of Contents:
Preface
Bibliographical Note
Dante and Governance: Context and Contents
From Darkness to Light: Governance and Government in Purgatorio XVI
Dante and Popular Sovereignty
Monarchia and Dante's Attitude to the Popes
The French Dimension in Dante's Politics
Politics and Theology in Inferno X
Feminine Virtues and Florentine Vices: Citizenship and Morality in Paradiso XV-XVII
The Rock and the Vine: Pier della Vigna, Dante and the Imagery of Empire
Diligite iustitiam qui iudicatis terram: Justice and the Just Ruler in Dante
Dante's Farewell to Politics
List of Contributors
Index
