Riprese sotterranee della Monarchia dantesca? : Bonincontro Morigia e il secondo prologo del Chronicon Modoeciense

This study analyses the political prologue of Bonincontro Morigia’s Chronicon Modoeciense, arguing that its conceptual architecture reflects an indirect and partially distorted reception of Dante’s Monarchia. Situated within the broader structure of the Chronicon, which is modelled on Giovanni da Cermenate’s Historia, this prologue is interpreted as a synthesis of relevant political themes such as liberum arbitrium, the nature of the res publica, the dual governance of pope and emperor, and the doctrine of the duo luminaria. While many ideas derive from Giovanni da Cermenate, who is known to have been familiar with Dante’s treatise, other elements suggest a wider dissemination of Dantean political thought in mid-fourteenth-century Lombardy. Thus, the prologue emerges not as evidence of direct reading, but as a revealing instance of interdiscursive echoes of Dante within civic historiography.