Pope boniface viii corruption index

The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy
by Joan Ferrante

Chapter 02, “Church and State in the Comedy”

THE PROPER FUNCTlONING of the empire on earth depends not only on its relations with individual cities and kingdoms, but also on its relations with the papacy. The jurisdictional dispute between secular and ecclesiastical authority, the third and certainly the most controversial question Dante takes up in the Monarchy, also permeates the Comedy. He deals with it directly in Marco Lombardo’s discourse on the two suns (Pg. 16) and in the various attacks on the Donation of Constantine, and indirectly in his own frequent and clear denial of any but a spiritual and didactic function to the church and in his unrelenting criticism of the greed, corruption, and abuse of their position by individual popes and churchmen. In the Monarchy, Dante deals with the questions theoretically; in the Comedy, he confronts them more practically. The emperor is the onl

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Pope Boniface VIII And His Times - Softcover

Synopsis

St. Alphonsus writes: “a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery.” Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatification of Blessed Maria Goretti: “There rises to Our lips the cry of the Saviour: 'Woe to the world because of scandals!' (Matthew 18:7).  Woe to those who consciously and deliberately spread corruption-in novels, newspapers, magazines, theaters, films, in a world of immodesty!” We at St. Pius X Press are calling for a crusade of good books. We want to restore 1,000 old Catholic books to the market. We ask for your assistance and prayers. This book is a photographic reprint of the original. The original has been inspected and some imperfections may remain. At Saint Pius X Press our goal is to remain faithful to the original in both photographic reproductions and in textual reproductions that are reprinted. Photographic reproductions are given a page by p

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Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections

Dante's Divine Comedy, Censored by Spanish Inquisition

August 30, 2010

Description and translations by Aaron Wirth, Archives and Special Collections Assistant and PhD candidate in the Comparative History Program

The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department at Brandeis houses a number of rare works by Dante Alighieri, such as the Aldine Press' first edition of "Le terze rime di Dante" (1502), Henry Longfellow’s translation of the "Divine Comedy" (1867), and Dante col sito, et forma dell'inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del poeta (1515). A 1564 edition of "La Divina Comedia" from Arévalo, Spain, however, is particularly noteworthy for several reasons.

In the 1564 edition held by Brandeis, the poem is encircled by commentaries from Christoforo Landino, Allesandro Vellutelloand Francesco Sansovino, all of whom were well-known Dante critics of their respective times. A