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Over the years such oldtime outlaws as Dante's De Monarchia and Arius' Thalia have been quietly removed from the Index. Last week the Congregation of the Holy Office took another step toward a possible reform of the Index: it allowed an Italian publisher to bring out an annotated version of Les Miserables...
Died. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, 70, retired president of California's Mills College (1916-43), outstanding Dante scholar (editor and translator: The Monarchia of Dante Alighieri), first woman moderator of a major U.S. church (Unitarian Churches of America, 1940-42); after long illness; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...absolute antithesis between Christ and Mexitl?peace and war?is all the more striking because of their resemblance in one important respect. Historian Torquemada, in his Monarchia Indiana, wrote it down that "A woman named Coatlicue or Snake-petticoat [the mother of Mexitl] . . . one day . . . saw a little ball of feathers floating down to her through the air, which she taking . . . found herself in a short time pregnant. . . . Then immediately [Mexitl] was born, fully armed . . . and held as a god, born of a mother without a father?as the great God of Battles...
...seemed the best of all things ordained for man's well being. But peace at this time was far from the city of Florence, and Italy. In the midst of confusion and strife Dante lifted up his voice, as one crying in the wilderness, preaching peace. His treatise De Monarchia is not the dry product of the understanding, but the living, inmost thought of a man, whose one object is the welfare of his fellowmen. He believed that truth must be spoken at all hazards, and this work was written at the risk of offending the most powerful persons...
...translations, that of the De Monarchia, by R. W. Church, London, 1879, of the Convito by Katharine Hillard, London, 1889, may be recommended, as may that of the Canzoniere by Charles Lyell, London, 1835, and of the Letters of Dante by C. S. Latham, Cambridge, Mass...