Di Scipio, Giuseppe C. “Dante and Politics.” In The Divine Comedy and the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences, 267–84. New York: John Benjamin Publishing Company, 1983.

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To speak of Dante and Politics is an extremely arduous task for this topic has attracted the attention of the most eminent scholars. Barbi, Barraglia, Cosmo, Davis, d’Entrèves, Ercole, Gilson, Hollander, Kantorowiecz, Kay, Maccarrone, Mazzotta, Nardi, Parodi, Peters, Read, Ricci, Rivière, Sarolli, Solmi, Sumner, Ullman, Vinay and other have made great contributions to the subject. I am, therefore, in awe in front of such knowledge and scholarship. Nevertheless, I shall attempt to make a modest contribution by narrowing down my subject on the question of Dante’s political theories in Convivio IV and their relationship with and bearing on the Monarchia.

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