FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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He came to prefer the idea of an enlightened emperor.
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He decided that only a dictator should be in power.
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He decided that only the Catholic Church should be in power.
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He came to the realization that all emperors are unjust.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dante thus argues that the Holy Roman Emperor should be the overarching political authority, and that his authority is conferred directly by God, and not by the ecclesiastical power of the pope.
Detailed explanation-2: -The great Italian poet turns his hand to political thought and defends the reign of a single monarch ruling over a universal empire. He believed that peace was only achievable when a single monarch replaced divisive and squabbling princes and kings.
Detailed explanation-3: -Accused of corruption and financial wrongdoing, Dante was first exiled from Florence for two years in 1302 after he refused to pay a fine. Shortly thereafter he was banned for life and threatened with execution at the stake or beheading if he returned.
Detailed explanation-4: -The poet Giovanni Boccaccio says Dante visited Paris while in exile and Gladstone believed he studied in Oxford, but it is unlikely that he ever left Italy. He lived for periods in Arezzo, Bologna and Verona and his last few years were spent in Ravenna, where he died in September 1321.