Note 311 — Chapter XV · THE EMPIRE AS AN INTERNATIONAL POWER.
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Peter de Andlo, multis locis (see esp. cap. viii.), and other writings of the time. Cf. Dante's letter to Henry VII: 'Romanorum potestas nec metis Italiæ nec tricornis Siciliæ margine coarctatur. Nam etsi vim passa in angustum gubernacula sua contraxit undique, tamen de inviolabili iure fluctus Amphitritis attingens vix ab inutili unda Oceani se circumcingi dignatur. Scriptum est enim
"Nascetur pulchra Troianus origine Cæsar, Imperium Oceano, famam qui terminet astris."'
So Fr. Zoannetus, in the sixteenth century, declares it to be a mortal sin to resist the Empire, as the power ordained of God.