Dear, Dante Aligieri

Dear,
Dante

Your masterpiece is one of my favorite muses. The eyes who gave the Pope advice, insidious. The rich being trodden down for their anger and sloth, magnificent.

However, you put Boniface in hell. He was hated by the world, I know. For, he tried to use Ecclesiastical authority to bind the kingdoms from war. In my estimation, the turmoil which would ensue from his beating and eventual death are likely the cause of the Dark Ages. The Hundred Years War and The Black Death.

Had Ecclesiastical authority proven to create peace, there would have been no hundred years war, and no black plague. How do I consider this? The influx of rats were initiated by superstition and uncleanliness. For in France it was not uncommon for there to be Sodomites, prior to the martyring of Boniface. That was the culture. And the unclean attitude created the corruption which denied Papal authority and thus led to a hundred years of war for none would have the Papal decrees of peace; and the uncleanliness created by superstition created an influx of rats from the hatred of cats, thus their fleas, thus the bubonic plague.

Boniface likely was trying to keep the peace, and the kingdoms, with no regard to Papal Authority, took him and beat him. And like a slave, Boniface died from his wounds from a fever. Yet the world hates him, and so do you? For what? Trying to bind Europe with peace? Trying to govern through Church authority? And yet today, it's said how much authority the church had, and that all the wrongs of the world are committed by Catholics. Yet, in my estimation, when a Pope tried to exercise that authority, the Kings conspired and put him to death. And the greatest poet to ever live puts that Pope in hell because of common hatred. 

It seems to me that Boniface is an example of how little power the Church had over the governments. They did what they wished. And when the Crusades happened, it was not the Church and its piousness, but the incursions into Spain from North Africa, thus a political motivation, not religious. As why would Boniface be martyred, and so hated? Why would Dante put him in hell? I do not conjure your ghost. Why put him in hell, Dante? For what? Trying to breed peace? Blessed are the Peacemakers. Yet, Boniface could not bind the warlust in Europe, and thus erupted into one of the bloodiest wars in history, and one of the longest. One hundred years of war, mingled with Plague. To which Joan of Arc, a true prophet, stopped the war; and she too was martyred!

Yet at least Joan has honor. What of Boniface? Placed in hell! Yet, Dante, no poet is perfect in knowledge. Nor are any poets purely reasoned based on the truth, and their modern age corrupts them. For that you are forgiven; for I too, must have some wrong in my masterpieces which are taught to me by the prejudice of my age. For that, I forgive you and say your work is the most brilliant, even better than Virgil. Yours is the greatest work of art in letters, no comparison. That and Milton's Paradise Lost.