In my reply to Nicole's query I wrote:
>My memory and my notes are too vague to give you a reliable summary of
>matter, but it is true, there was some critical and ufficial response
>during the 14th century and later, although this response was directed
>primarily to _De monarchia_. (...) According to Boccaccio (_Vita di
>Dante_, chap. 26) and Bartolo del Sasoferrato, Dante's _De monarchia_
>was condemned and publicly burnt by cardinal Bertrando del Poggetto
>"some years" after Dante's death, an event which is supposed to have
>taken place in 1329 and which according to Boccaccio was motivated by
>the use which Louis of Bavaria and his followers had made of this work
>in their conflict with John XXII.
>
Now our member John Scott kindly has pointed out to me that the name which
I had copied without thinking is actually Bertrand du Poujet:
>The Cardinal Legate who had the Monarchia publicly burned in Bologna
>was a French Cardinal by the name of Bretrand du Poujet (hence, the
>Italians always refer to him as Bertrando del Poggetto - and some
>American scholars have assumed that this was his name!).
Thank you, John, for putting this right, and apologies to all for my
sloppiness!
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