Dante ghibellino. Note per una discussione

The essay proposes a chronlogical hypothesis which will clarify the diverse yet related moments of the request for the Black Guelfs' pardon in the canzone Tre donne, and the marked Ghibelline spirit which gives life to the eulogy of Frederick II and Manfredi in De vulgari eloquentia. Dante’s progressive estrangement from the Guelf viewpoint of his mentor Brunetto Latini is also considered as it leads to an openly pro-imperial stance that the Inferno neither denies nor hides, as some have indeed thought.