Guelfs

Waiblingens, who in Italy became known as Guelfs and

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Florence had been strangely peaceful in his childhood because the Guelfs were her unquestioned masters at the time.

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The saintly Italian was opposed to the warlike doctrines of St Dominic; he made peace very frequently between the two parties known as Guelfs and Ghibellines.

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The Guelfs were the papal party only in the sense that, like the Saxons, they were in opposition to the dynasty which occupied the German throne and claimed the imperial title.

The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304

The papal or popular party, known as Guelfs, had as its purpose the independence of

Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920

[T.S.]] [Footnote 4: The Guelfs were the Papal and popular party in Italy, and the Ghibellines were the imperial and aristocratic.

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Reading the Divine Comedy is not an easy undertaking -- keeping straight all the Ghibellines and Guelfs and people well-known back then but known today primarily because of Dante -- but the year I devoted to reading through it was some of the best time I ever spent.

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A couple of postings back, I said you should try to learn something about the Guelfs and Ghibellines.

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A couple of postings back, I said you should try to learn something about the Guelfs and Ghibellines.

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After Charles of Anjou, with the blessing of the Papacy and strong Guelf support, defeated Hohenstaufen armies at Benevento (1265/6) and Tagliacozzo (1268), the Guelfs became the dominant force in Florence.

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