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Book Description
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

Book Description
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

Book Description
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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Impossible!
How is it possible that I am the first to review the finest English translation of the Divine Comedy ever made?I can only suppose that, "it goes without saying." ... Read more

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A lively, in-depth discussion of THE DIVINE COMEDY: THE INFERNO.Students are taken on an exciting journey of discovery through every scene or chapter.Also included are unique text notes, ideas for term papers, notes on the author's life as well as a glossary. ... Read more

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An Emotionally Harrowing read that has fine wit and satire
I found this book very depressing and frightening to read.When I read it was young, Catholic, had a vivid imagination, and a strong sense of guilt.At various times throughout reading the book I was convinced that I was going to go to hell - so the book is pretty effective as a way of scaring people into behaving better.I also disagree with Aligheri's notion that premarital sex and suicide will send you hell.The description of hell is thorough and complete and I found the drawings fascinating.I enjoyed reading who ended up in hell and why.

The most amazing portray of our deepest unknown fear. Hell.
Dante's brillance goes underglorifed until the moment the book is finished, then a sudden gush of overwhelming astonishment shows what a real "great mind" is capable of.The amazing attention to detail andthe most extream symbolism in every aspect makes this book worth the time. ... Read more

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The Monarchia Controversy provides both the background to the imperial and ecclesiastical machinations that drove Dante Alighieri to begin penning the Monarchia in 1318 and also the subsequent history of the efforts by papal authorities to ban the book after the writer's death. Dante's political treatise on the Empire and the Papacy was listed by the Church in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1564, and it was removed only in 1881. Anthony Cassell's account of the Monarchia's genesis is both compelling and provoking, especially in the descriptions of the intransigence of Dante's proponents and antagonists. While earlier scholars have viewed Dante's treatise as peacefully divorced from its times, Cassell shows that Dante's pose of calm authority above the fray was at once traditional, forensic, courageous, and hard-won.

Cassell examines in close detail Dante's relations to his patron Can Grande della Scala, Pope John XXII's attempts to strip Can Grande of his privileges, the pertinent traditions of canon law, the culture of contemporary political and ecclesiastical publicists, the work of formal logicians, and the motives of Dante's first post-mortem opponent, Friar Guido Vernani. The author traces the treatise's reception through and beyond the first censorship and public burning that it suffered in Bologna from Cardinal Bertrand du Poujet in 1328, and the failure of Bertrand's threat to incinerate the writer too should his mortal remains be discovered.

To document the history, Cassell presents a fresh, annotated translation of the Monarchia, together with the first English versions of Guido Vernani's refutation of Dante's Monarchia (1329), and Pope John XXII's bull Si fratrum of 1316-17, which sparked the crisis. Cassell's volume will interest not only the general reader but scholars in many fields, such as medieval philosophy, history and theology, canon law, ecclesiastical history (especially Ockham and Marsilius of Padua studies), medieval Latin, Italian and Comparative Literature. ... Read more