In 1294, Boniface VIII ascended to the papal throne. <br />What did he do if Dante would send him to Inferno only a few years later? <br />Dante was also a White Guelph politician, half for the emperor half for the Pope. <br />His imperial half did not want to give soldiers the Pope, <br />To receive the papal peace keeper Charles of Valois in Florence. <br />So his bad companions sent the poet as ambassador to Vatican City and got him out of the way. <br />The Hohenstaufen had fallen and there was not an emperor any more, <br />There was the Pope and would have been forever.<br /><br />Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aai-the-origins-dante/
