| Abstract | Paper -a:
In this paper we propose to analyse the political thought of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) in relation to the power of the Papacy and the Empire and its importance in the process of building up the construction of the modern state, independent of ecclesiastical interference. We will demonstrate the influence of the scholastic philosophy in the political thought of Dante Alighieri and as his literary and to some extent, influenced the political identity that was being built, positioning itself against the hierocratic doctrine, once engage in the discussions about the temporal power. Based on his De Monarchia we will try to show how the medieval culture present in Dante allowed him to promote the exercise of thinking and acting in society.
Paper -b:
My contribution aims at examining the early expression of Dante Alighieri's political thought about the empire. On the occasion of the 700 years from the death of the Emperor Henry VII of Luxembourg, I will take into consideration Dante's Epistle V, which was written right after Henry had descended in Italy and when Pope Clement V still demonstrated to support the Emperor's claims. On the one hand, the Epistle foreshadows the political ideology that Dante later expresses in the De Monarchia and in the Commedia; on the other hand, it directly answers to Clement's encyclical Exultet in Gloria – a fact which has been only partially pointed out so far. This perspective will also allow me to clarify the debated expression 'Tytan pacificus', which is used in the Epistle to define Henry.
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