Silvester, the Roman bishop; and never was physician more gloriously recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St. Peter; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East; and resigned to the popes the free... The Inferno of Dante - Pàgina 391per Dante Alighieri - 1833 - 437 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Lives - 1799 - 440 pàgines
...is represented M resigning to the popes, on betaking himself to his new eastern metropolis, the full and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the west. Appealing to these documents as authentic in one of his letters to Charlemagne, Adrian founds on them... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pàgines
...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St. Peter; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East; and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West."9 This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pàgines
...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East ; and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West f . This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted of... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pàgines
...the seat and patrimony of St Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the Last ; and resigned to the popes the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West f . This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted of... | |
| Jean Rodolphe Peyran - 1826 - 620 pàgines
...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St. Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the east ; and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the west So deep was the ignorance and credulity of the times, that the most absurd of fables was received with... | |
| Robert OXLAD - 1826 - 240 pàgines
...Popes*'---hy the latter of which it was pretended thnt Conttantme had made a grant to th« Church of the free and perpetual Sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West; a grant which the Popes represented as placing a solemn 'ohligation on the Princes of succeeding centuries... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 pàgines
...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from his seat and patrimony of St. Peter, declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the east, and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted of the... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 392 pàgines
...recompensed. His. royal proselyte withdrew from his seat and patrimony of St. Peter, declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the east, and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted of the... | |
| Charles Rockwell - 1842 - 446 pàgines
...Emperor Constantine of the leprosy, as a reward for it, received a grant, to the successive Popes, of the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. Though all now admit this claim to have been a forgery, still, in that age of darkness, it effected... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1843 - 300 pàgines
...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from his seat and patrimony of St. Peter, declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East, and resigned...Italy, and the provinces of the west. The emperors and the Romans were incapable of discerning a forgery that subverted their rights and freedom ; and... | |
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