In 1312, Dante Alighieri wrote a treatise called De Monarchia, in which he expressed his belief that society would operate best under a single authority - that is, a secular monarch. Dante, in his characteristic rabble-rousing way, argued that...

An act of transgression is the start of a new consciousness and for Dante Alighieri the visionary experience is initiated with such an action. La Vita Nuova explores ideas of love, poetry, and expression of the self through the Beatrician moment...