"For citizens," he says, "exist not for the sake of
consuls, nor the people for the sake of the king, but, on the
contrary, consuls for the sake of citizens, and the king for the sake
of the people."
[206] Paradiso, VIII. 145, 146.
[207] Purgatorio, XVI. 106-112.
[208] De Monarchia, sec. _ult_.
[209] De Monarchia Lib III sec. 10. "Poterat tamen Imperator in
patrocinium Eccelesiae patrimonium et alia deputare immoto semper
superiori dominio cujus unitas divisio non patitur. Poterat et
Vicarius Dei recipere, non tanquam possessor, sed tanquam fructuum
pro Eccelesia proque Christi pauperibus dispensator." He tells us
that St. Dominic did not ask for the tithes which belong to the poor
of God. (Paradiso, XII. 93, 94.) "Let them return whence they came,"
he says (De Monarchia, Lib II. sec. 10); "they came well, let them
return ill, for they were well given and ill held."
[210] Inferno, XIX. 53; Paradiso, XXX. 145-148.
[211] Purgatorio, XX. 86-92.
[211] Purgatorio, XX. 86-92.
[212] Purgatorio, XIX. 134, 135.
[213] This results from the whole course of his argument in the
second book of De Monarchia, and in the VI. Paradiso he calls the
Roman eagle "the bird of God" and "the scutcheon of God.
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