Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Dante's Monarchia and
Vernani's Refutation in Context Prolegomena: The Crisis and Its Major Players
1. Tiara and Scepter
2. Dante in the Eye of the Storm
The Logician and the Prophet, 23 / Dante's Forensic
Procedure, 27 / The Perils of Posthumous Burning, 33 /
The Early Manuscripts and the Fortune of the Monarchia, 41 /
Ecclesiastical Ambition, Terror, and Spleen, 43
3. The Monarchia and Vernani's Censures
On Book 1, 50 / On Book 2, 65 / On Book 3, 82
TRANSLATIONS OF THE TEXTS
DANTE'S Monarchia
Book i, in Book 2, 28 Book 3, 150
VERNANI'S Refutation
JOHN XXII'S Sifratrum
Notes
Bibliography
Index