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Dante in Love

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by A. N. Wilson


  fioriusciti (exiles) 76

  flattery, punishment 280

  Flaxman, John 328

  Florence, Baptistery 49–50

  and Catharism94

  churches, Orsanmichele 109;

  Santa Croce 57, 61, 194, 196–8;

  Santa Margherita 57;

  Santa Maria Novella 61, 94, 159, 163, 197;

  Santa Reparata (later Santa Maria del Fiore) 57

  and commerce 45–6, 51–2, 67, 123

  Council of One Hundred 174

  Dante’s anger against 274–5

  education in 67–8

  and European currency 3, 32, 40, 45, 261, 276

  factions 32–4, 39–42, 71, 183–6, see also Ghibellines; Guelfs

  and freethinking 49

  guilds 42, 51–2, 76, 173–4

  and Henry VII 274–6, 277

  new constitution 48, 51, 75–7

  Ordinances of Justice 173, 174

  and papal interdict 48–9

  politics 3, 4–5, 13, 31–6, 42–3, 48, 73–9, 116, 169

  popolo 42–3, 47, 58, 124, 173, 266

  population 45–6

  Priors 31, 33, 50, 59, 173–4, 184–5

  tower-fortresses 39–41, 75, 185

  Trecento art and architecture 40

  and veiling of women 74–5

  wards (sesti) 60, 64, 73, 174

  wealth 52

  Folco (Folchetto/Folquet) of Marseilles 94

  forgery 261–2, 278

  fortune-telling, via Aeneid 253, 254

  Foster, Fr Kenelm, OP 154, 250

  France, and Albigensians 26, 88–94

  and Italian politics 30–4, 41, 44, 51, 76–7, 124, 170

  and Papacy 30–1, 53–4, 76–7, 170, 172, 183, 186–90, 286–9, 306

  Francesco da Barberino 102

  Francis of Assisi, St 15, 95, 112, 154, 194, Figs. 3, 4

  and Christmas crib 204

  and Holy Poverty 196, 198, 304

  and Stigmata 125, 194–5, 204, 305

  Franciscans 154, 196

  and asceticism 95

  Conventuals and Spirituals 196, 198

  order of St Clare 60–1

  patronage of Giotto 194, 197–8

  Frederick I Barbarossa 309

  Frederick II, Emperor (1194–1250) 44, 45, 46, 87, 186, 206, 284

  death 265–6

  and falconry 120–1

  and University of Naples 119, 158

  free will, and Hell 208–14, 280

  and Virgin Mary 313–14

  freedom of thought 118

  Freemasonry 323–4

  freethinking 49, 150, 158, 164, 324

  Freud, Sigmund 252

  friars see Dominicans; Franciscans

  Frost, Robert 334

  Frye, Herman Northrop 231

  Fulcieri da Caboli 296

  Fuller, Margaret 331

  Gaetano, Francesco 288

  Gagliardi, Antonio 238, 354 n.10a

  Galileo Galilei 147

  Gandhi, Mahatma 56, 90

  Gardner, Edmund 234

  Garibaldi, Guiseppe 219, 327, 330

  Gazzata, SagacioMuzio (chronicler) 284–5

  Genoa, size 45

  Gerardo da Camino 191, 199

  Gerbert of Aurillac, Archbishop of Ravenna 145

  Ghibellines 2, 31–2, 39, 41–4, 53–4, 122–4, 185, 265

  and battle of Campaldino 124–7, 176, 185

  and battle of Montaperti 43, 46–7, 122, 177

  and Catharism 94

  and CorsoDonati 186

  and Dante 163, 190, 216

  and Henry VII 265–6

  and Malabranca’s reforms 74, 75–6

  and Papacy 170

  in Pisa 122, 123, 267–8, 275

  Ghiberti, Lorenzo 49

  Giardino, Piero 300–1

  Gibbon, Edward 146, 151, 291

  Gilson, Etienne 11, 158, 351 n.30

  Giotto di Bondone (1266/7–1337) 24

  and Assisi, Upper Basilica 193–4

  and Cimabue 182, 193–4

  and Florence, campanile 38, 200,

  Santa Croce 57, 197–8

  friendship with Dante Fig. 2, 40, 191, 192–3, 200–8, 216–17

  Last Judgement fresco Fig. 26

  and Padua, Scrovegni chapel 199–201, 202, 204–6, 207–8, 251

  and realism 202–3, 204–6, 251

  and St Francis of Assisi Fig. 4

  Giovanna (Primavera) 130

  Giovanni Alighieri (son of Dante) 137

  Giovanni da Nono 200

  Giovanni of Serravalle 326

  Gladstone, W. E. 229–30, 324–7

  God, existence 161–2

  knowledge of 160–1, 167, 234–8

  mystical experience of 234–42, 302, 305–6, 314–15

  Goethe, J. W. von 116, 319

  Goya, Francisco 328

  Grandgent, Charles Hall 331

  grandi, Florentine 33, 40, 50, 60–1, 76

  Gray, E. Du Plessix 14, 345 n.1b

  Greenlees, Ian 5

  Gregory di Montelungo 268

  Gregory IX, Pope (1227–41) 196, 346 n.17

  Gregory X, Pope (Tebaldo Visconti; 1271–6) 54–5, 73

  Grimm, Jacob 328

  Guarino of Verona 318

  Guelfs 2, 36–7, 41–2, 61, 122–4

  and battle of Benevento 48, 53, 122

  and battle of Campaldino 124–6, 176

  and battle of Montaperti 69, 122

  Black and White factions 32–4, 36, 59, 124, 170, 174–6, 183–5, 190, 207–8

  and Brunetto Latini 68, 69

  and Charles of Anjou 48, 51, 53–4, 55, 77–8, 112, 122

  and Dante 39, 41, 51, 55–6, 116, 119, 163, 170, 172–3

  and Henry VII 268

  and Malebranca’s reforms 74, 75–6

  and Robert of Anjou 273

  Guido da Castel(lo) 283, 285

  Guido da Montefeltro 209–10, 212–14

  Guild of Physicians and Apothecaries 173–4

  guilds, Florentine 42–3, 51–2, 76, 173–4

  Guillaume de Durfort 125

  Guillaume de Lorris, The Romance of the Rose 81–2, 85

  Guinizelli, Guido 87, 95–6, 116–17, 182

  Guittone d’Arezzo 87

  gunpowder, invention 93–4

  Hadrian V, Pope (1276) 73

  Hallam, Arthur 324

  Hallam, Henry 324

  Haroun al-Rashid 145

  Harrison, Richard Pogue 11, 349 n.1b

  Heaven, as Athens 237–8, 248

  Heavens (spheres) 147–8

  of Jupiter 305

  of Mars 305

  of Mercury 293, 304

  of the Moon 303–4

  of Primum Mobile 132, 140, 148, 333

  of Saturn 305–6

  of the Sun 304–5

  of Venus 94, 171–2, 250, 304

  Heer, Friedrich 156, 157, 351 nn.23, 27

  Hell, 6th circle 46, 176–7

  7th circle 70

  8th circle Fig. 5

  9th circle 39

  circle of sodomites 69, 95, 263

  and free will 208–14, 280

  portrayed by Giotto 207, 208

  see also Inferno

  Hemingway, Ernest 334

  Henry II, King of England (r. 1154–89) 22

  Henry VII, Emperor (r. 1308–13) 45, 265–9, Fig. 25

  as Count of Luxembourg 265–6

  and Dante 8, 120, 163, 268–72, 273–5, 281, 330

  death 276–7

  as deliverer 269–74, 330

  and Robert of Anjou 273, 275, 276, 277

  heraldry 294

  heresy, and 6th circle of Hell 176–7

  and Albigensians 26, 88–96

  dualism 88–90, 95, 100

  and Ordeal 309

  punishment by burning 93–4

  see also Inquisition

  Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen 91

  Hill, Geoffrey 336

  Hilton, Walter 235


  Hohenstaufen dynasty 44, 51, 53–5, 266

  Holy Places, and crusades 54, 266, 308–9

  Muslim control 15, 26

  Holy Roman Empire, and coinage 45

  and emergence of nation states 3

  and Hohenstaufen dynasty 5, 44, 53–5, 266

  and Papacy 23, 30–1, 41, 44–5, 53–4, 122, 267

  regalia 268

  as universal monarchy 120, 266, 289

  Holy Year, 1300 as 16–17, 32, 117, 272, Fig. 16

  and indulgences 16, 257–8

  and Veronica legend 18–19

  Homer 68, 254

  homosexuality 69–72, 95–6, 98, 101

  Honorius III, Pope (1227) 22

  Hood, John Y. B. 157, 351 n.29

  humanism 68, 278–9, 280

  Hume, David 162

  Iacopo Alighieri (son of Dante) 137, 294–5, 300–1, 318

  icons 201–2

  idolatry, and Courtly Love 96, 100, 108–9

  Il Convivio 132, 227, 230, 234, 251

  and Alboinodella Scala 283

  as autobiography 230, 234, 236–42, 243, 247–8, 251

  and Boethius 236–7

  and donna gentile 138–41, 144

  and mysticism 239–42

  and Platonism 239, 241

  and Virgil 253

  and Vita Nuova 139–40, 164, 236

  Immaculate Conception 309, 310–11, 314

  imperialism 228–9, 278

  Incarnation, and love 100, 189, 242, 306, 313

  and Stigmata 194–5, 305

  indulgence, plenary 16, 24, 257–8

  Inferno, as autobiographical allegory 70, 259

  and Boniface VIII 23

  and Cavalcante de’Cavalcanti 106, 177, 181, 183

  date 260

  and Donati clan 58–9

  and Florence 39

  and Latini 69–72, 95–6, 98, 206, 282, Fig. 24

  and Mahomet 260

  and Mountain of Purgatory 262

  and occupatio 263

  and Paolo and Francesca 98–9, 101, 250, 294, 325

  setting 260–4, 286, 325

  translations 320–2, 327

  and Ugolini 121, 210–12

  and Ulysses (Odysseus) 150–1, 238, 259, Fig. 8

  and usurers 199–200, 207, 229

  and Venice 298

  Virgil as guide 209, 253–5, 260, 263–4, 279, 308

  Innocent III, Pope (1198–1216) 91–3, 119, 346 n.17, 356 n.8a

  Innocent IV, Pope (1243–7) 94, 257

  Innocent V, Pope (1276) 73

  Inquisition, and Cathars 93, 94

  Intellect, and Averroes 110

  and knowledge of God 161, 237–9

  and love 111–12, 237

  intellectualism, Catholic 155–6, 305, 339

  interpretation, allegorical 82–5

  anagogical 85

  Isidore of Seville 222, 346 n.10

  Islam, and philosophy 15, 110, 145, 156, 237

  as threat to Christianity 15, 26, 88

  Italian language 218–21, 225–7, 237

  Italy, and France 30–4, 41, 44, 51, 76–7, 124, 170, 183, 186–9

  and Holy Roman Empire 32, 53–4, 76, 265–8, 272–7, 283

  and nationalism 226–8, 275, 322–4, 327, 330

  and Papacy 41, 54, 172

  unification 219–20, 284

  Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose 82, 85, 97

  Jerusalem, and Athens 238

  Muslim control 15, 26

  John, King of England (r. 1199–1216) 92

  John XXI, Pope (1276–7) 73

  John XXII, Pope (Jacques D’Euse; 1316–34) 289–90, 317

  Johnson, Samuel 161

  Jubilee see Holy Year

  Julian of Norwich 235

  justice 215

  Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor 292–3, 304

  Keats, John 84, 322

  Kirkpatrick, Robin 337

  Kirkup, Seymour 323

  knowledge, of God 160–1, 167, 234–8

  objective 162, 165

  Knox, Ronald 254

  La Verna, and Francis of Assisi 125, 195, 196

  Lady at the Window see donna gentile

  Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de 320

  Langton, Stephen, Archbishop of Canterbury 22

  Languedoc, and Cathars 88–93

  and troubadours 85, 88, 94, 101, 107

  Latin, Dante’s knowledge of 81, 120, 220–1, 226, 246

  and Italian 221, 225–6, 237

  as lingua franca 226–7

  and Romance languages 222–6

  Latini, Brunetto 4, 42–3, 68–9

  and education of Dante 68, 282

  in Inferno 69–72, 95–6, 98, 206, 282, Fig. 24

  Li Livres dou Trésor 69

  Tesoretto 69, 71

  law, and politics 168–9

  and universities 119

  Le Goff, Jacques 21, 346 n.11

  Leo X, Pope (1513–21) 347 n.19

  Leopardi, Giacomo 219

  Lewis, C. S. 148, 152, 256, 350–1 n.4

  literacy, in Florence 67–8

  literature, Latin 81, 120

  vernacular 85–8, 117, 118, 218–21, 237, 295, 336

  Logical Positivism, and Love 9–10

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 322, 331

  Lorenzetti, Ambrogio, Allegory of Good Government 167–8

  Louis IX of France (St Louis; r.1226–70) 44

  Louis VII ‘le Jeune’ of France (r.1137–80) 309, 311

  love, and childhood 64–5

  Divine 114, 238, 240–2, 251

  and intellect 111–12, 237

  and mysticism 239–40

  and philosophy 9–10, 12, 76, 164–5, 241

  and politics 170–1, 304, 340

  and religion 10, 12–13, 65, 100, 114, 338

  sacred and profane 101, 113–15

  see also Courtly Love

  Lowell, James Russell 331

  Lowell, Robert 336

  Lyons, 2nd Council 1274 21, 256

  Macauley, Thomas Babington 220, 324

  McCabe, Herbert, OP 157, 351 n.25

  Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius 151

  Saturnalia 193

  magic 7

  Mahler, Gustav 252

  Mahomet, in Inferno 260

  Maimonides 148

  Malabranca, Cardinal Latino 27, 74–6

  Malaspina, Moroello 229–30, 243, 246–7, 260

  Malaspina family 229–30

  Malebolge, in Inferno 262–3, 298

  Mandelbaum, Allen 96, 337

  Manfred, Emperor-elect 43–4, 46–8, 49, 122, 177, 206

  Al-Mansur (caliph) 144–5

  maps, Jewish Fig. 9

  world map Fig. 6

  Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 150

  Margaret of Brabant 265

  Margerie, Amédée 206, 353 n.19

  Marsilius of Padua, Defensor pacis 168–9

  Martin IV, Pope (Simon of Brie; 1281–5) 76–7

  Marx, Karl 327

  Mascall, E. I. 155, 351 nn.21,24

  mathematics 142–3, 145–6

  Matthew of Acquasparia, Cardinal 33, 36

  Matthew of Westminster 18

  Mazzini, Guiseppe 219, 227, 330

  Meaux treaty (1229) 93

  Mechthild of Magdeburg 235

  Medici, Cosimo the Elder 347 n.19

  Medici, Giovanni de’ 347 n.19

  Medici, Lorenzo the Elder (1395–1440) 347 n.19

  Medici, Lorenzo ‘the Magnificent’ (1449–92) 318

  Medici, Salvestro de’ 347 n.19

  Medici family 52, 185

  mendicant orders see Dominicans; Franciscans

  mercy, divine, in Dante 47–8, 49, 214–15

  Messiaen, Olivier, Quartet for the End of Time 302

  Metternich, Klemenz von 227

  Michael VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor 77, 256

  Milan, and coronation of Henry VII 268

  Milton, John, Lycidas 182
r />   Misson, Maximilian, New Voyage to Italy 319

  Momigliano, A. 96

  moneylenders see usury Montaperti, battle (1260) 43, 46–7, 69, 122, 177

  Monte Cassino monastery, and Aquinas 158

  Moore, Edward 270–1, 272

  Mortimer, Anthony 244–6, 337

  Musa, Mark 65–6, 111–12, 113, 337

  Mussato, Albertino 284

  mysticism, erotic 8, 91

  and experience of God 234–42, 305–6, 314–15

  Naples, size 45

  University 119, 158

  Napoleon Bonaparte 320

  Nardi, Bruno 6, 110, 140

  Narses (r.554–68) 292

  nation states, emergence 3, 118

  nationalism, Italian 226–8, 275, 322–4, 327, 330

  New Sweet Style 111, 234

  Niccolò da Prato, Cardinal 185

  Niccolòde’Niccoli 318

  Nicholas III, Pope (Giovanni Gaetano; 1277–80), and Florentine constitution 74, 76

  Nicholas IV, Pope (1288–92) 27

  Nichols, J. G. 115, 337

  Nietzsche, Friedrich 328, 330

  Norton, Charles Eliot 331

  Novello di Battifolle, Count Guido 274

  Novello, Guido, Count of Poppi 46, 123, 125–6

  numbers, Arabic 142, 145

  symbolism 131–3, 142, 269–71

  occupatio 263

  Oderisi da Gubbio 181–2

  Okey, Thomas 111, 113

  Ordelaffi, Scarpetta 191

  Order of Preachers see Dominicans

  Oria, Ser Branca d’ 280

  Origen of Alexandria 155

  Orlandi, Guido 109

  Orosius, Paulus 226

  Orr, M. A. 11, 350–1 n.4

  Orsinidel Monte, Napoleone degli 288

  Orsini, Matteo Rosso degli 288

  Orsini dynasty 27, 39, 74, 288

  Ostasio I da Polenta 299

  Oxford, and Dante 324–6

  Padua, Dante in exile in 192–208, 216–17

  population 45

  Scrovegni chapel 199–201, 202, 204–6, 207–8, 251

  Palermo, size 45

  Palgrave, Francis 324

  palio, Verona 281–2

  Pandolfini, Agnolo 329

  Panizzi, Antonio 321

  Paolo and Francesca, in Inferno 98–9, 101, 250, 295, 325

  Paolucci, Antonio 193

  Papacy, Babylonian captivity 30–1, 190, 266, 272, 275, 287, 289

  and Dante 306, 317, 327, 340–1

  and France 30–1, 53–4, 76–7, 170, 172, 183, 186–90, 286–9, 306

  and Holy Roman Empire 23, 30–1, 41, 44–5, 122, 267

  and Holy Year 16–17

  Medici popes 347 n.19

  papal monarchy 3, 23, 25–7

  political strength 24–5, 169–70, 172

  Paradiso, and astronomy 144

  and Augustine of Hippo 234

  Beatrice as guide 303, 305–7, 333, Fig. 28

  Bernard of Clairvaux as guide 94–5, 303, 308, 311–12, 314

  and Can Grande 283–4

  and Charles Martel 78, 171–2, 304

  originality 301–2, 304

  and Thomas Aquinas 194

 

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