FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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the political autonomy of the Municipality
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the expansionist aims of the pope
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the political interests of the Emperor
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the political independence of the Municipality
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Detailed explanation-1: -White and Black Guelphs By 1300, the Florentine Guelphs had divided into the Black and White Guelphs. The Blacks continued to support the Papacy, while the Whites were opposed to Papal influence, specifically the influence of Pope Boniface VIII.
Detailed explanation-2: -Simply put, the Guelphs and Ghibellines were rival parties in medieval Germany and Italy that supported the papal party and the Holy Roman emperors respectively. But in Italy, the divisions became more a function of rivalries between cities and even local families.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fearing a threat to his own political potentcy in Lombardy, the newly elected Pope Alexander III firmly opposed Frederick’s aggressive conquest, resulting in a split peninsula: the Guelphs in support of the papacy and the Ghibellines in support of the emperor.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Guelphs supported the papacy, and the Ghibellines supported the Holy Roman Emperor; Dante was a Guelph. However, he was a white Guelph (as opposed to a black Guelph): his group were seen to be unfaithful to the papacy and therefore many of their important figures were exiled from Florence.