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POLITICS WITH AND WITHOUT ROMANCE: DANTE’S MONARCHIA VERSUS MACHIAVELLI’S IL PRINCIPE

Reinhard Neck

First published: 2022https://doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscah.2022/s03.02View metrics

Abstract

This paper contrasts Monarchia by Dante Alighieri with Il Principe by Niccolo Machiavelli. It is argued that the Principe not only incorporates the realities of politics but is also superior to the Monarchia as a scientific work because it avoids the latter’s commitment to scholastic philosophy and has greater empirical relevance and logical consistency. Moreover, it can serve to some extent as a role model for an approach to a positive analysis of politics even today.

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Title
POLITICS WITH AND WITHOUT ROMANCE: DANTE’S MONARCHIA VERSUS MACHIAVELLI’S IL PRINCIPE
Authors
Reinhard Neck
Proceedings
Proceedings of 9th SWS International Scientific Conference on Arts And Humanities - ISCAH 2022, VOL 9
Publisher
SGEM WORLD SCIENCE (SWS) Scholarly Society
Year
2022
Pages
9-16
SWS Citekey
Neck202218916
ISSN
2682-9940
ISBN
978-3-903438-05-7
Language
en
Publication type
Proceedings Paper
Keywords
Political philosophyDante AlighieriNiccolo Machiavelli
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  12. Shaw, P., ed. and trans. (1996), Dante: Monarchy. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Mon. = Dante Alighieri, Monarchia. Quotations from the English translation in Shaw (1996)

  13. ; checked with the Latin text from Imbach and Flueler (1989)

  14. . Pr. = Niccolo Machiavelli, Il Principe. Quotations from the English translation in Mansfield (1998)

  15. , checked with the Italian text from Rippel (2011)

  16. .

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