Dantis Aligherii Florentini Monarchia
Coloniae Allobrogum [i.e. Venezia] : apud Henr. Albert Gosse & soc., MDCCXL = 1740
8vo, pp. iv, 95, [1]. Woodcut vignette to title, a very good copy
First separate edition of Dante’s Monarchia, a major work on political theory and a key to the understanding of the Divina Commedia. The book was first printed in Alciati’s De formula Romani imperii in 1559, and placed on the Index of forbidden books. It was reprinted by Simon Schardius in his collection De iurisdictione (1566 and 1609), but then lay fallow for over a hundred years. This is its third and first separate appearance. Giambatista Pasquali published Dante’s works in Venice in 1739-41 but felt it prudent to print the Monarchia separately, with a false imprint.
The third book of the Monarchia … seeks to establish the separation of the temporal power from the spiritual power, and to prove that the authority of the Roman monarch, who is by right the monarch of the world, derives immediately from God, and not from the Vicar of God (Mon. III, i, 5): a secular, or anti-hierocratical solution to the problem of the happiness of men on earth, and therefore a proposition which undermines the very basis of the claims to supremacy which had been repeatedly put forward by the popes, which Boniface VIII had forcefully asserted in the bull Unam Sanctam, and of which Clement V had often taken care to remind Henry VII.
Η "Μοναρχία" είναι ένα από τα σημαντικότερα πολιτικοφιλοσοφικά έργα του Δάντη Αλιγκέρι, γραμμένο στα λατινικά (περίπου 1312-1313), όπου υπερασπίζεται την ανάγκη για μία παγκόσμια, θεϊκά ορισμένη μοναρχία [Αυτοκρατορία] ως τον μόνο τρόπο για την επίτευξη της παγκόσμιας ειρήνης και της ευημερίας της ανθρωπότητας, με τον αυτοκράτορα να έχει εξουσία απευθείας από τον Θεό, όχι από τον Πάπα.
De monarchia Ντάντε Αλιγκέρι Dante Alighieri Δάντης Αλιγκέρι DANTE ALIGHIERI ΔΑΝΤΗΣ ΑΛΙΓΚΕΡΙ Νταντε Αλιγκερι Δαντης Αλιγκερι