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Theology, Prophecy and Politics in Dante Kevin Marples Theology, Prophecy and Politics in Dante Kevin Marples Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Leeds School of Languages, Cultures and Societies May 2016 1 The candidate confirms that the work submitted is his own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of other This copy has been supplied on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from this thesis may be published without proper acknowledgment. ©2016 The University of Leeds Kevin Marples 2 Acknowledgements This thesis would not have been possible without the support and encouragement of colleagues and friends both from inside and outside the AHRC project. Particular to Claire Honess and Matthew Treherne for the opportunity to study Dante at Leeds, and for all their support and encouragement over the years. To my parents for their belief in me and for all their love and encouragement. And to Anna with love. 3 Abstract Principally this thesis will deal with defining, accounting for, and examining, the relationship between the theological and the political in Dante's use of prophecy. It will be demonstrated that it is an over-riding feature of Dante’s thought in both the Monarchia and the Commedia that the only remedy against cupidity, and the damage it does to the world, is ecclesiastical poverty combined with imperial power. This thesis will show that much of the urgency and passion with which Dante communicates his political and social message in the Commedia, which seems to advocate both ecclesiastical poverty and imperial power as prerequisites for the ideal human society, is through his use of prophecy and of prophetic language. I demonstrate the way in which contemporary responses to the Old Testament prophets and the book of Revelation seem to have influenced Dante’s prophetic manner, but also seeks to highlight the unique nature of Dante’s response to the currents of thought he encountered, in particular the adoption of religious prophecy as the means by which some of the most innovative aspects of his political thought are articulated. 4 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Table of Contents 4 List of Abbreviations 5 Chapter 1 6 Chapter 2 21 Chapter 3 75 Chapter 4 132 Chapter 5 214 Chapter 6 277 Bibliography 282 5 Abbreviations Commedia La Commedia secondo l’antica vulgata, ed. by Giorgio Petrocchi, 2nd edn, 4 vols (Florence: Le Lettere, 1994) Conv. Convivio, ed. by C. Vasoli & D. De Robertis, vol I.ii of Dante Alighieri, Opere minori, 2 vols (Milan & Naples: Ricciardi, 1979) DDP Dartmouth Dante Project. https://dante.dartmouth.edu De Civ. Dei St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei, ed. by B. Dombart and A. Kalb (Turnhout: Brepols, 1955) DE The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. by R. Lansing (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000) ED Enciclopedia Dantesca, ed. by U. Bosco, 6 vols. (Rome: Treccani, 1970-76 Ep. Epistole, ed.by A. Frugoni and G. Brugnoli, in Dante Alighieri, Opere Minori, 2 vols (Milan: R. Ricciardi, 1979) Inf. Inferno, in La Commedia secondo l’antica vulgata Mon. Monarchia, ed. by P. Shaw (Florence: Le Lettere, 2009) Par. Paradiso, in La Commedia secondo l’antica vulgata Purg. Purgatorio in La Commedia secondo l’antica vulgata ST Summa Theologiae http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/iopera.html VN Dante Alighieri, Vita nova ed. by D. De Robertis, in Dante Alighieri, Opere minori, 2 vols. (Milan & Naples, Ricciardi, 1979), I, 3-250 6 Chapter 1 1.1 Aims This thesis forms part of a wider AHRC-funded project: Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society. This project explores the multiple experiences of theology in Florence in the period 1280-1300, when Dante tells us that he engaged in theological study, and examines the ways in which Dante, in the Commedia and elsewhere, responds to those experiences. The project therefore casts light on the ways in which medieval theology was mediated and experienced within a specific historical and geographical context, paying close attention to its effects upon different publics; in doing so, it seeks to re-evaluate a key dimension of a fundamental work of world literature, a work which is increasingly recognised not only as being foundational within the European literary tradition, but also as a distinctive and unique theological voice in its own right. This thesis aims to place Dante’s use of prophetic practice and language within its contemporary context and to demonstrate that Dante’s use of prophecy, and the adoption of the role of poet- prophet, are key points at which the theological and the political come together in the Commedia. Principally this thesis will deal with defining, accounting for, and examining, the relationship between the theological and the political in Dante’s use of prophecy. It will be demonstrated that it is an over-riding feature of Dante’s thought in both the Monarchia and the Commedia that the only remedy against cupidity, and the damage it does to the world, is ecclesiastical poverty combined with imperial power. This thesis will show that much of the urgency and passion with which Dante communicates his political and social message in the Commedia, which seems to advocate both ecclesiastical poverty and imperial power as prerequisites for the ideal human society, is through his use of prophecy and of prophetic language. This thesis seeks to demonstrate the way in which contemporary responses to the Old Testament prophets and the book of Revelation seem to have influenced Dante’s prophetic manner, but also seeks to highlight the unique nature of Dante’s response to the currents of thought he encountered, in particular the adoption of religious prophecy 7 as the means by which some of the most innovative aspects of his political thought are articulated. This chapter will define the wider aims and themes of the thesis. To do so it provides an overview of Dante’s use of prophecy with a view to summarising the status quaestionis and outlining the contribution that this thesis hopes to make to furthering the debate around these issues. I will consider the issue of the dating of Dante’s works and its implications for the interpretation of those passages that might be termed ‘prophetic’. This chapter will provide a number of working hypotheses which will serve as starting points for the discussion in the rest of the thesis. 1.2 Dante and Prophecy Dante’s adoption of the role of prophet, his use of the language of biblical prophecy, and his assumption of prophetic authority in his works has been the subject of extensive critical attention.1 Throughout the Commedia, Dante makes frequent use of statements which predict the future although as will be made clear this is not necessarily the only, or even principal, characteristic of prophetic speech. The action of the poem is set during Easter 1300, but Dante did not begin writing the poem until several years after this date. Setting the poem in the recent past allows the author to present historical facts as prophecies, the predictions of Dante’s exile by Farinata in Inferno X, by Brunetto Latini in Inferno XV, and by Cacciaguida in Paradiso XV all fall into this category. For example Cacciaguida predicts Dante’s exile from Florence: Qual si partio Ipolito d’Atene per la spietata e perfida noverca, tal di Fiorenza partir ti convene. (Par. XVII, 46-48) In addition to these post eventum prophecies there are a smaller number of 1 See, for example, for an overview: B. Nardi, ‘Dante Profeta’, in Dante e la cultura medievale, 2nd edition (Bari: Laterza, 1949) pp. 336-416; N. Mineo, Profetismo e apocalittica in Dante: Strutture e temi profetico-apocalittici in Dante: dalla Vita nuova alla Divina commedia (Catania: Università di Catania, Facoltà di lettere e filosofia, 1968); R. Morghen, Dante profeta tra la storia e l’eterno (Milan: Jaca Book, 1988); P. Nasti, Favole d’amore e ‘saver profondo’: La tradizione salomonica in Dante (Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2007) , in particular, Chapter 4 ‘Retorica biblica e rinnovamento politico’; A. R. Ascoli, Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011); M. Santagata, ‘Dante egocentrico e/o profeta’, Forum Italicum, 47 (2013), 3-14. See also the later notes to this chapter, and for more specifically- focused studies, the notes to the chapters that follow. 8 ‘true’ or ante eventum prophecies which deal with predictions or aspirations beyond the date of the poem’s composition.2 Most famously we have the Veltro (Inf. I, 105), the DXV (Purg. XXXIII, 43), and the providential reform promised by St Peter in Paradiso (Par. XXVII, 61-63). My thesis is not does not seek to provide definitive answers to these most heavily debated interpretative cruxes but will seek to contextualise them within the intellectual and political milieu in which they were created. I suggest that the ambiguity of these ante eventum prophecies may well be deliberate on Dante’s part and that this ambiguity serves not only to make the prophecies proof against obsolescence but also to better integrate them into a wider prophetic programme of post and ante eventum prophecies with the demonstrable veracity of the former giving credence to the latter. These prophecies also play an important role in Dante’s own identification of himself as author-prophet and the assertions of authority which this role entails. In this chapter I wish to define the status quaestionis, with regard to the likely meanings of these prophecies, as these are related to Dante’s ideas regarding the nature and function of human society and thus to one of the Commedia’s main political themes, which will form the basis for my discussion of the relationship between the political and the theological in Dante.
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