La Catalogna in Dante (dal Fiore alla Monarchia)

Abstract

: The article analyses and relates four Dante passages in which Catalonia is named (or evoked): from the Fiore , from the Commedia , from the De Vulgari Eloquentia and from the Monarchia , in which emerges, on the one hand, an organic idea (even if subjective), of the place that Catalonia occupies in the European linguistic and political space, and on the other the coherence of these approaches , , , , , , del qualche settentrione rispetto questi: settentrione circondati dal all’estremo d’Aragona; a mezzogiorno chiusi dai Provenzali e dallo spartiacque delle Alpi Pennine].