Our proposal is to investigate, building upon our previous studies on the treatise 'The Monarchy' and drawing from the reading of both classical and more recent literature on the subject, the relationship between Dante Alighieri's political philosophy and Law. Additionally, we aim to explore the contributions that the Florentine thinker seems to have made to the legal and political discussions of his time regarding temporal power.
Our research focuses on examining whether the theory of universal monarchy, as well as the fundamental concepts that constitute his philosophical thought (humana civilitas, pax, tranquillitas, nobilitas), can be better understood when we delve into the centrality of Law, the quest to establish jurisdiction for temporal power, and Dante's significant knowledge of the legal discussions taking place in the early Italian Trecento.