Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Lives of the Popes in the Middle Ages, Vol. 18
Modern Works - Of the modern biographies of Boniface VIII., we shall only cite the most important. The first modern writer to realize that at any rate Benedict Gaetani was a great man, and that, although, because he failed to read the Signs of the times, his imperious character proved disastrous to himself and to the temporal position of the Papacy, he was nevertheless an heroic figure, and was one who is generally said to be a countryman of ours.
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