History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages, Volume 5, Part 2G. Bell & sons, 1906 |
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Page 512 - Moreover we declare, affirm, define, and pronounce, that it is altogether necessary to salvation that every human creature should be subject to the Roman pontiff.
Page 598 - Romans in the city are occasionally specified as "towers, palaces, houses, and ruins."1 Families dwelt among ruins, in uncomfortable quarters, barred by heavy iron chains, with their relatives and retainers, and only now and then burst forth with the wild din of arms, to make war on their hereditary enemies. We may enumerate the most considerable of these towers of the nobility, being, as they are, the essential features of the city in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, during which period...
Page 535 - Imsla (Murat., Antiq., i. 1039)' The spirit of the age overthrew him as it had overthrown Frederick II. He strove after a goal which had already become fantastic ; he was the last pope who boldly conceived the thought of an all-ruling hierarchy, as Gregory VII., and Innocent III. had conceived it. Boniface VIII., however, was only an unfortunate reminiscence of these popes. He was a man who achieved nothing great, whose high-aimed endeavours excited, instead of admiration, merely an ironical smile....
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Page 482 - Boniface rode a snow white palfrey covered with a hanging made of Cyprus plumes, the crown of Sylvester on his head, and wearing the most solemn pontificals ; beside him, clad in scarlet, walked two vassal kings, Charles and Charles Martel holding the bridle of his horse. Only half a year before the same kings had walked beside a pope who wore a hermit's tunic and rode upon an ass.
Page 500 - Lettres historiq. et dogmatiq. sur lesjubilis (La Haye, 1751), a superficial production of Voltairian times. And Boniface in truth stood in need of money to defray the expenses of the war with Sicily, which swallowed up incalculable sums. If instead of copper, the monks in S. Paul's had lighted on gold florins, they would necessarily have collected fabulous wealth, but the heaps of money both in S. Peter's and S. Paul's consisted mainly of small coins, the gifts of poor pilgrims. Cardinal Jacopo...
Page 451 - Fanguille di Bolsena : nec minus bene bibebat cum illis, quia anguilla vult natare in vino in ventre. ' Concerning the appointment of Montfort, see the Pope's letter, Orvieto, V. Id. Maji, a. III., Duchesne, v. 886 ; Gesta Philippi III., Recueil, xx. 524. His daughter Anastasia was married to Romanellus Gentilis Orsini ; through her Nola came to the Orsini. Her mother Margareta was heiress of the Aldobrandini estates of Pitigliano and Soana, which also fell to the Orsini. She had...
Page 502 - Rome to mankind. It can scarcely be doubted that Dante beheld the city in these days, and that a ray from them fell on his immortal poem which begins with Easter week of the year 1300. The sight of the capital of the world inspired the soul of another Florentine. "I also found myself...
Page 494 - Ossa B. Jacoponi de Benedictis , Tudertini, Fr. Ordinis Minorum , qui stultus propter Christum nova mundum arte delusit et coelum rapuit.
Page 482 - ... of Cyprus plumes, the crown of Sylvester on his head, and wearing the most solemn pontificals ; beside him, clad in scarlet, walked two vassal kings, Charles and Charles Martel holding the bridle of his horse. Only half a year before the same kings had walked beside a pope who wore a hermit's tunic and rode upon an ass. They might now remind themselves how little they had been humbled by the service they had then rendered. The shade of the poor spiritualist assuredly stood in warning before Boniface...