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vo precisely the bridge by which the one art passes over into the territory of the other? for her Brunelleschi curved the dome which Michel Angelo hung in air on St. Peter's; for her Giotto reared the bell-tower graceful as an Horatian ode in marble; and the great triumvirate of Italian poetry, good sense, and culture called her mo was roused that he thought better of it. Yet this was duringthe pontificate of the Frenchman, John XXII., the reproof of whose simony Dante puts in the mouth of St. Peter, who declares his seat vacant, Paradiso, XXVII. whose damnation the poet himself seems to prophesy, Inferno, XI. and against whose election he had endeavor hold it. Philip the Fair himself could hardly treat Boniface VIII. worse than he. With wonderful audacity, he declares the Papal throne vacant by the mouth of Saint Peter himself. Paradiso, XXVII. 22. Even if his theory of a dual government were not in question, Dante must have been very cautious in meddling with the Church.