Peter, Paradiso XXVII 22, the terrible invective that makes the whole heavens red with anger. “He who usurps upon the earth my place, My place, my place, which vacant has become Now in the presence of the Son of God, Has of my cemetery made a sewer Of blood and fetor, whereat the Perverse, Who fell from here, below there is appeased.” He died in 1303. See note 925 . ↩

• Nicholas III , of the Orsini (the Bears) of Rome, chosen Pope in 1277. “He was the first Pope, or one of the first,” says Villani, VII ch. 54, “in whose court simony was openly practised.” On account of his many accomplishments he was surnamed Il Compiuto . Milman, History of Latin Christianity , Book XI ch. 4, says of him:⁠— “At length the election fell on John Gaetano, of the noble Roman house, the Orsini, a man of remarkable beauty of person and demeanor. His name, ‘the Accomplished,’ implied that in him met all the graces of the handsomest clerks in the world, but he was a man likewise of irreproachable morals, of vast ambition, and of great ability.” He died in 1280. ↩