• The wars against the Ghibellines in general, and particularly that waged against the Colonna family, ending in the destruction of Palestrina. Inferno XXVIL 85:⁠— “But he, the Prince of the new Pharisees, Having a war near unto Lateran, And not with Saracens nor with the Jews, For each one of his enemies was Christian, And none of them had been to conquer Acre, Nor merchandising in the Sultan’s land.” ↩
• The sale of indulgences, stamped with the Papal seal, bearing the head of St. Peter. ↩
• Matthew 7:15:⁠— “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” ↩
• Psalm 44:23:⁠— “Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?” ↩
• Clement V of Gascony, made Pope in 1305, and John XXII of Cahors in France, in 1316. Buti makes the allusion more general:⁠— “They of Cahors and Gascony are preparing to drink the blood of the martyrs, because they were preparing to be Popes, cardinals, archbishops and bishops, and prelates in the Church of God, that is built with the blood of the martyrs.” ↩