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Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia

Note 254 — BOOK II.

F. J. (Frederick John) Church translation

Witte only gives a query (?). The saying expresses the Ghibelline view of the relation of the Empire to the Pope; it may have originated with the coronation of Charles the Great.

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