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Monarchia (On Monarchy)

Dante Alighieri

This book is in Latin.

Dante’s treatise on temporal monarchy in three books (c. 1312-1318): that a universal monarchy is necessary for the well-being of the world; that the Roman people took the Empire by right; and that the authority of the Emperor depends immediately on God and not on the Pope. The Latin follows the transcription on The Latin Library (the Società Dantesca Italiana text). Its third book is divided into fifteen chapters in this source; some editions reckon sixteen.

Contents

Source: All three books, chapters and paragraph numbers as in the source (I 16 chapters, II 11, III 15). The site’s navigation and footer are dropped. The English of F. J. Church (1878, Gutenberg #33896) and Aurelia Henry (1904) is not imported.