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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dante Alighieri |
 | | Enraged at this partial treatment, Corso Donati, in understanding with his adherents in Florence, appealed to the pope, who decided to send a French prince, Charles of Valois, with an armed force, as peacemaker. |
 | | We find Dante, in 1301, prominent among the ruling Bianchi in Florence. |
 | | On 19 June, in the Council of the Hundred, he returned his famous answer, Nihil fiat, to the proposed grant of soldiers to the pope, which the Cardinal of Acquasparta had demanded by letter. |
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