Charles of Valois, who came into Italy by invitation of Boniface the Eighth, in 1301. See Inferno VI 69 . ↩

There is in old French literature a poem entitled Le Tournoyement de l’Antechrist , written by Hugues de Mery, a monk of the Abbey of St. Germain-des-Prés, in the thirteenth century, in which he describes a battle between the Virtues under the banner of Christ, and the Vices under that of Antichrist.

In the Vision of Piers Ploughman , there is a joust between Christ and the foul fiend:⁠—