Dante's Works

Introduction

Important people, concepts, and themes, based on your reading of De monarchia and the articles by Najemy and Davis:

  • Pope Boniface VIII
  • Guelfs and Ghibellines
  • Blacks and Whites
  • Holy Roman Empire
  • Rome
  • Donation of Constantine
  • syllogism
  • Aristotle
  • decretalists
  • allegory (Scripture and allegory)
  • the original sin
  • the structure of Book 3