Ethics, politics and justice in Dante / / edited by Giulia Gaimari, Catherine Keen.

• TeilnehmendeR: Gaimari, Giulia,; Keen, Catherine,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 176 pages)

Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante presents new research by international scholars on the themes of ethics, politics and justice in the works of Dante Alighieri, including chapters on Dante's modern 'afterlife'.Together the chapters explore how Dante's writings engage with the contemporary culture of medieval Florence and Italy, and how and why his political and moral thought still speaks compellingly to modern readers. The collection's contributors range across different disciplines and scholarly traditions - history, philology, classical reception, philosophy, theology - to scrutinise Dante's Divine Comedy and his other works in Italian and Latin, offering a multi-faceted approach to the evolution of Dante's political, ethical and legal thought throughout his writing career.

Table of Contents

Introduction: justice in the heart -- On grammar and justice: notes on Convivio, II -- A classicizing friar in Dante's Florence. Servasanto da Faenza, Dante, and the ethics of friendship -- An ethical and political bestiary in the first canto of Dante's Comedy -- Lust and the law: reading and witnessing in Inferno V -- More than an eye for an eye: Dante's sovereign justice -- 'Ritornerò profeta': the Epistle of St James and the crowning of Dante's patience -- Ethical distance and political resonance in Dante's Eclogues -- Dante's Fortuna: an overview of canon formation and national contexts -- Responses to Dante in the new millennium.