Nine masterful essays on Dante's Divine Comedy and his political theology by one of today's leading Italian philosophers.

• Contents
• Introduction: Nostalgia for the Empire, or Dante’s Metapolitics
  • Touching Dante
  • The Mystery of Saint Francis
  • A Sin against Aristotle
  • The Politics of Heaven
  • Toward a European Empire?
  • German Dante
• Chapter 1 Double Portrait: Saint Francis of Assisi in Dante and Giotto
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • VI
• Chapter 2 The “Sin” of Ulysses
  • I
  • II
  • Addendum
• Chapter 3 Dante’s Divine Perception (Aesthesis Theia)
• Chapter 4 The Concrete Ineffable: The Last Cantos of the Commedia
• Chapter 5 Dante’s Intellectual Love
• Chapter 6 Latin and Vernacular in the De vulgari eloquentia
• Chapter 7 On Dante’s Political Theology
• Chapter 8 A Brief Note on the German Reception of Dante
• Chapter 9 Schelling’s Dante
• Notes
• Chapter Sources
• Index