FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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political treatise in three books
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political treatise in two books, the first on the papacy, the second on the empire
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encyclopedic treatise
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The great Italian poet turns his hand to political thought and defends the reign of a single monarch ruling over a universal empire. He believed that peace was only achievable when a single monarch replaced divisive and squabbling princes and kings.
Detailed explanation-2: -Monarchia, often called De Monarchia (Classical Latin: [deː mɔˈnarkʰɪ. aː], Ecclesiastical Latin: [de moˈnarki. a]; “(On) Monarchy"), is a Latin treatise on secular and religious power by Dante Alighieri, who wrote it between 1312 and 1313.
Detailed explanation-3: -This was a fascinating religio-political tract by the most brilliant poet of the last 2, 000 years, Dante Alighieri. In De Monarchia, Dante makes the bold argument for a single world-emperor who should assume political authority over the entire civilized world.
Detailed explanation-4: -In De monarchia (c. 1313), still in principle highly relevant, Dante insists that only through universal peace can human faculties come to their full compass. But only “temporal monarchy” can achieve this: “a unique princedom extending over all persons in time.” The aim of civilization is…