Concept
Guelphs and Ghibellines
Overview
rival political factions in medieval Italy
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Long before they were adopted in Italy, the names of Guelf and Ghibeline had been employed in Germany to mark the partisans of the Bavarian Welf and of the Hohenstaufen lords of Waiblingen. On Italian soil they received an extended meaning: Ghibeline stood for Imperialist; Guelf for anti-Imperialist, Papalist, or simply Nationalist. When the names began to be freely used in Florence, which was towards the close of…
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
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To destroy was not enough, without adding to it the keenest and newest refinement of insult. Two buildings in Florence were peculiarly dear--among their "_cari luoghi_"--to the popular feeling and the Guelf party: the Baptistery of St. John, "il mio bel S. Giovanni," "to which all the good people resorted on Sundays,"[6] where they had all received baptism, where they had been married, where families were solemnly…
R. W. Church, Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia.
Close in meaning to Guelphs and Ghibellines; the term itself is not named.
The real difference between Guelf and Ghibelline was long lost in Italy, before these factions were extinguished. The Guelfs adhered to the pope, the Ghibellines to the emperor; yet the family of Sforza, who were in alliance with the emperor, though they were Guelfs, being expelled Milan by the king of France, assisted by Jacomo Trivulzio and the Ghibellines, the pope concurred with the latter, and they formed…
David Hume, Essays
Close in meaning to Guelphs and Ghibellines; the term itself is not named.
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