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DANTE
AND
DE MONARCHIA.
DANTE.
An Essay.
BY
R. W. CHURCH, M.A., D.C.L.
DEAN OF ST. PAUL’S, AND HONORARY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD.
To which is added
A TRANSLATION OF
DE MONARCHIA.
By F. J. CHURCH.
London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1879.
CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS,
CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.
CONTENTS
NOTICE
DANTE
DE MONARCHIA
CONTENTS OF DE MONARCHIA
PUBLISHER'S CATALOGUE
FOOTNOTES
NOTICE.
The following Essay first appeared in the "Christian Remembrancer" ofJanuary, 1850, and it was reprinted in a volume of "Essays andReviews," published in 1854.
It was written before the appearance in Germany and England of theabundant recent literature on the subject. With the exception of a fewtrifling corrections, it is republished without change.
By the desire of Mr. Macmillan, a translation of the De Monarchia issubjoined. I am indebted for it to my son, Mr. F.J. Church, lateScholar of New College. It is made from the text of Witte's secondedition of the De Monarchia, 1874. The De Monarchia has been morethan once translated into Italian and German, in earlier or latertimes. But I do not know that any English translation has yetappeared. It is analysed in the fifteenth chapter of Mr. Bryce's "HolyRoman Empire."
Witte, with much probability, I think, places the-vi- composition of thework in the first part of Dante's life, before his exile in 1301,while the pretensions and arguments of Boniface VIII. (1294-1303) werebeing discussed by Guelf and Ghibelline partisans, but before theywere formally embodied in the famous Bull <