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- Even though Pope Boniface VIII never physically shows up in the Inferno, he's a major figure, both in Dante’s political life and as a symbol of sin. Boniface would have served nicely as Dante’s prime antagonist... if only our poet been able to include him in his story.
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For the truly rash act of Inferno 19 is the one executed by Dante-poet, who effectively reserves a place in Hell for Boniface VIII. [21] In damning Boniface VIII, Dante sets aside the theology of repentance, which holds that sinners can delay repentance until the very last moment of life and still be saved.
Even though Pope Boniface VIII never physically shows up in the Inferno, he's a major figure, both in Dante’s political life and as a symbol of sin. Boniface would have served nicely as Dante’s prime antagonist... if only our poet been able to include him in his story.
Pope Boniface VIII. Boniface, for Dante, is personal and public enemy number one. Benedetto Caetani, a talented and ambitious scholar of canon law, rose quickly through the ranks of the church and was elected pope, as Boniface VIII, soon after the abdication of Pope Celestine V in 1294.
Backed by Pope Boniface VIII, the Blacks had him exiled from his home, considering him an influential and persuasive voice for the opposition. It's not a coincidence that Dante's Inferno saw Pope Boniface confined to the eighth circle of Hell, held face-down in a stone tube, his feet engulfed with flames the heat of which was proportional to ...
Dante disliked Pope Boniface VIII intensely and considered him a danger to the church because Boniface believed that the pope should be both the leader of the church and of the secular government. Dante, on the other hand, believed in a balance of power between church and state.
But Pope Boniface VIII sought him out as a military adviser in his battles against the Ghibelline. Guido is unaware of Dante's ability to travel through both earth and the afterlife. He doesn't realize that Dante actually can ensure that his name will live on, and seems only willing to share his story because he thinks it won't get shared.
Pope Boniface VIII. A notoriously corrupt pope who reigned from 1294 to 1303, Boniface made a concerted attempt to increase the political might of the Catholic Church and was thus a political enemy of Dante, who advocated a separation of church and state.
