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Boniface VIII

noun

Pope who declared that Catholic princes are subject to the pope in temporal as well as in theological matters (1235-1303). Synonym: Benedetto Caetani.

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... of the first distinction in modern Italy. They had been exceedingly powerful during the popedom of Boniface VIII., through the talents of the late Cardinal James Colonna, brother of the famous old Stefano, so well known to Petrarch, and whom he used to call a phoenix sprung up from the ashes of Rome. Their house ...

— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch

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