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A Source Book of Mediæval History

Note 612 — Chapter XXVI · THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

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For example, Pope Innocent IV. (1243-1254) declared: "Two lights, the sun and the moon, illumine the globe; two powers, the papal and the royal, govern it; but as the moon receives her light from the more brilliant star, so kings reign by the chief of the Church, who comes from God."

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