"It is not that Dante intends to combat the cupiditas of the clergy in order to save the autonomy of the State; rather, “it is the struggle against cupiditas, the need to thoroughly permeate public life with religion, that leads him to distinguish between the orders.” In other words, the central point of his thinking, which leads him to overcome both Guelphism and Ghibellinism, is "the intuition of the concordance between the affirmation of the autonomy of the Empire, hitherto supported by heterodox thinkers, and that of the purification of the Church affirmed by spiritual writers," which is in line with what the best interpreter of Dante's philosophy, Étienne Gilson, defines as the singular and unique feature of his thought, irreducible to any source."
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Augusto Del Noce, F. Mercadante, A. Tarantino, B. Casadei (editors), Rivoluzione Risorgimento Tradizione, Milano, 1993, p. 323. Reported in 30Giorni.it, article n.° 13074; and Augusto Del Noce, Dante e il nostro problema metapolitico in L'Europa, V, 30 April 1971
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