Dante Alighieri, his life and works . 02. 230 DANTES WORKS Readings on the Inferno (1894), Purgatorio (1889),and Paradiso (1900)^; and H. F. Tozers English Com-mentary on the Divina Commedta (1901).^ Other works on the Commedia (or including the Com-medid) which should be mentioned here are, the VocabolarioDantesco of L. Blanc (Leipzig, 1852), translated intoItalian by G. Carbone (Florence, 1859); the Dizionariodelta Divina Commedia of Donato Bocci (Turin, 1873); theDizionario Dantesco of Giacomo Poletto (Siena, 1885-7);the Concordance of the Divina Commedia of E. A. Fay(Boston, Mass. 1888); t
Dante Alighieri, his life and works . 02. 230 DANTES WORKS Readings on the Inferno (1894), Purgatorio (1889),and Paradiso (1900)^; and H. F. Tozers English Com-mentary on the Divina Commedta (1901).^ Other works on the Commedia (or including the Com-medid) which should be mentioned here are, the VocabolarioDantesco of L. Blanc (Leipzig, 1852), translated intoItalian by G. Carbone (Florence, 1859); the Dizionariodelta Divina Commedia of Donato Bocci (Turin, 1873); theDizionario Dantesco of Giacomo Poletto (Siena, 1885-7);the Concordance of the Divina Commedia of E. A. Fay(Boston, Mass. 1888); the Enciclopedia Dantesca of G. A,Scartazzini (Milan, ); the Dante Dictionary ofPaget Toynbee (Oxford, 1898); and the Indice dei NomiPropri e delle Cose Notabili of the same author, appendedto the Oxford Dante (Oxford, 1894).* ^ Second editions, 1897 (Purgatorio), 1906 (Inferno), 1909 (Paradiso).^See Chronological List of English Translations from Dante (loc. cit.).^ Often reprinted. ^ Second edition, 1897; third edition, DANTE ALIGHIERIFront the painting by A}tdrea del Castagiio, tn the Miiseo Nazioitale at Florence CHAPTER III Latin Works—The De Monarchia—The De Vulgari Eloquentia—The Letters—The Eclogues—The Quaestio de Aqua et Terra—ApocryphalWorks. IN addition to his Italian works Dante wrote severalworks in Monarchia.—The most important of these and thebest known is the De Monarchia, a treatise on monarchy,which has been described as the creed of Dantes Ghibel-linism . Its subject is the relations between the Empireand the Papacy; it is a plea for the necessity of a uni-versal temporal monarchy, coexistent with the spiritualsovereignty of the Pope. The work is divided into threebooks,^ in the first of which Dante treats of the necessityof monarchy; in the second he discusses the question howfar the Roman people were justified in assuming the fiinc-tions of monarchy, or the imperial power; in the third heinquires to what extent the funct
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