Perspectives on «Dante Politico» : : At the Crossroads of Arts and Sciences / / ed. by Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Ardizzone, Maria Luisa,; Barbero, Alessandro,; Boccassini, Daniela,; Fonzo, Claudia di,; Meier, Franziska,; Pérez Carrasco, Mariano,; Quaglioni, Diego,; Selenu, Stefano,; Silvestrini, Flavio,; Stocchi-Perucchio, Donatella,; Tavoni, Mirko,; Wiesse-Rebagliati, Jorge,
• HerausgeberIn: Stocchi-Perucchio, Donatella,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Mimesis : Romanische Literaturen der Welt , 97
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 226 p.)

This book argues that political concerns, inseparable from Dante’s biography, permeate his entire corpus, emerging at the intersection of the multiple fields of knowledge he explores, from the liberal arts to law, philosophy, and theology. It also shows that Dante, by elucidating the natural integration of the humanities with the sciences, continues to be a source of provocative insights and inspirations on how to be political beings today. Preceded by an introductory chapter focused on politics and education, the essays collected in the volume offer a range of close textual and contextual readings of Dante’s life and works grouped in four parts: 1. The Self and History, 2. Visions of the World: Cosmology and Utopia, 3. From the Language of Politics to the Language of Theology, 4. Instances of Political Reception in Asia and South America. The different disciplinary angles adopted by the contributors include history, economics, jurisprudence, linguistics, ethics, metaphysics, theology, cosmology, social thought, ecology, education, and the performing and visual arts. The collection addresses a specialized audience of Dante scholars, medievalists, historians, political philosophers and scientists, reception scholars, and legal and cultural historians.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Dante Politico at the Crossroads of Arts and Sciences: Politics and Education Then and Now -- Part I: Biography, Historiography, Cosmology -- Dante’s Political Activity and Party Allegiance in Florence -- Dante as a Modern Utopian Thinker: Origins and Metamorphosis of an Idea -- Within the Universe/The Universe Within: Reflections on Dante’s Cosmo-Politics -- Part II: Politics, Logic, Law -- ‘Ut virtuosius operetur per lucem gratie’: Notes on Monarchy III iv 20 -- Dante: Poet of Discretion and Judgment and his Political Vision -- Economy and Logic in Dante’s Monarchia: An Archetype -- Part III: Politics, Theology, Linguistics -- The “Yoke of Liberty”: Dante’s Politics from Philosophy (through History) to Theology -- Dante Linguista at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Politics, and Biography -- The Political Economy of the Vulgar in Dante’s Exilic Writings: Literati, Disorienting Transformations, and Perilous Growth of Wealth -- Part IV: The Politics of Reception: Performing and Visual Arts -- China Looking for Political Guidance: Dante in Liang Qichao’s Xin Luoma (La nuova Roma) -- Dante Politico: Three Testimonies in Modern Peruvian Plastic Arts -- Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Dante’s Works