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| | The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy: Chapter 02 |
 | | The one pope Dante meets in Purgatory, Hadrian V, in canto 19, is an example of greed corrected, but only when he achieves the height of earthly wealth, the papacy, and learns how little it means.[19] Then he turns to spiritual matters, an ironic instance of the papacy teaching virtue to the pope. |
 | | In Guido's case, the roles are reversed: the pope, playing the emperor's role, is the afflicted one, with a fever for power or revenge, and he goes to the former political figure, now a monk, for a cure, a plan to undo his enemy. |
 | | John of Paris picks up that point (De potestate regia et papal, 6) and adds that even ecclesiastical property is given to the community, not to the pope, and that lay property is under the jurisdiction of lay princes. |
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