Church and Empire: Separate Roles for Separate Institutions
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- This power over all
- Examples of how the power of the papacy is destroying buon comune in Florence
- The way recent popes had misused their papal power
- Dante's objection to France's actions
- The Florence throughout the Commedia
- Conclusion
- Works cited
Abstract
Dante's Divine Comedy is a political work as much as it is a religious one. Amongst the imprecations against Florence, the Papacy, and the French monarchy, there is a dominant political philosophy that shapes how Dante characterizes the political bodies that threaten his vision of universal imperial power. He believes that the goal of humanity is to attain its full intellectual potential. This is only possible if mankind lives in a state of order and peace, or buon comune. In the Commedia as well as his other works he argues that the only way to establish this buon comune, which is the will of God, is through the intervention of the Holy Roman Emperor. Neither the pope nor other strong secular rulers such as the French kings could fulfill the precise role ascribed to the emperor - to Dante, only empire was the way to peace.
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