The De Monarchia Of Dante Alighieri PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...5. See De Mon. l. 8. 6. De Mon. I. 3, notes 2 and 3; 2. 7, note 2. Also Par. 8. 97 ff., and Conv. 4. 24. 7: " Bountiful nature... never fails to provide all necessary things." 7. Phys. 2. 2. 8. Par. 8. 122: "It behooves that divers must be the roots of the effects in you; wherefore one is born Xerxes, another Melchisedec, and another he who flying through the air lost his son.... A nature begotten would always make its course like its begetter, if the divine foresight were not stronger." 9. Conv. 4. 2I. 2: "The soul... as soon as produced, receives from the motive power of heaven its possible intellect, which creates potentially in itself all universal forms as they exist in its producer." Purg. 30. 109: "By cooperation of the mighty wheels which direct every seed to some end according as the stars accompany." 10. Pol. i. 5. n. 4. If these things are true, there is no doubt but that nature set apart in the world a place and a people for universal sovereignty; " otherwise she would be deficient in herself, which is impossible.12 What was this place, and who this people, moreover, is sufficiently obvious in what has been said above, and in what shall be added further on. They were Rome and her citizens or people. On this subject our Poet has touched very subtly in his sixth book, where he brings forward Anchises prophesying in these words to Aeneas, father of the Romans: " Verily, that others shall beat out the breathing bronze more finely, I grant you; they shall carve the living feature in the marble, plead causes with more eloquence, and trace the movements of the heavens with a rod, and name the rising stars: thine, O Roman, be the care to rule the peoples with authority; be thy arts these, to teach men the way of peace, to show mercy...