China Looking for Political Guidance: Dante in Liang Qichao’s Xin Luoma (La nuova Roma)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction
5. Dante Politico at the Crossroads of Arts and Sciences: Politics and Education Then and Now 1
6. Part I: Biography, Historiography, Cosmology
7. Dante’s Political Activity and Party Allegiance in Florence 39
8. Dante as a Modern Utopian Thinker: Origins and Metamorphosis of an Idea 49
9. Within the Universe/The Universe Within: Reflections on Dante’s Cosmo-Politics 65
10. Part II: Politics, Logic, Law
11. ‘Ut virtuosius operetur per lucem gratie’: Notes on Monarchy III iv 20 81
12. Dante: Poet of Discretion and Judgment and his Political Vision 93
13. Economy and Logic in Dante’s Monarchia: An Archetype 111
14. Part III: Politics, Theology, Linguistics
15. The “Yoke of Liberty”: Dante’s Politics from Philosophy (through History) to Theology 125
16. Dante Linguista at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Politics, and Biography 141
17. The Political Economy of the Vulgar in Dante’s Exilic Writings: Literati, Disorienting Transformations, and Perilous Growth of Wealth 157
18. Part IV: The Politics of Reception: Performing and Visual Arts
19. China Looking for Political Guidance: Dante in Liang Qichao’s Xin Luoma (La nuova Roma) 179
20. Dante Politico: Three Testimonies in Modern Peruvian Plastic Arts 193
21. Contributors 215
22. Index of Names 219
23. Index of Dante’s Works 225