![]() ![]() 16) and in the various attacks on the Donation of Constantine, and indirectly in his own frequent and clear denial of any but a spiritual and didactic function to the church and in his unrelenting criticism of the greed, corruption, and abuse of their position by individual popes and churchmen. ![]() He deals with it directly in Marco Lombardo’s discourse on the two suns (Pg. ![]() The jurisdictional dispute between secular and ecclesiastical authority, the third and certainly the most controversial question Dante takes up in the Monarchy, also permeates the Comedy. THE PROPER FUNCTlONING of the empire on earth depends not only on its relations with individual cities and kingdoms, but also on its relations with the papacy. The Political Vision of the Divine ComedyĬhapter 02, “Church and State in the Comedy” ![]()
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