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Ubertino of Casale
Like Ubertino, Michael is a Spiritualist and ally of the Emperor, and believes that the church should adopt a lifestyle of strict poverty. At the end of 1327, Michael has been summoned to Avignon to see the pope, but fears he is walking into a trap. Adso reports that after the events at the abbey, Michael’s diplomatic mission to Avignon fails and he escapes by joining the Emperor’s entourage.
Michael of Cesena Quotes in The Name of the Rose
The The Name of the Rose quotes below are all either spoken by Michael of Cesena or refer to Michael of Cesena. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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"Naturally, A Manuscript" and Prologue
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Michael of Cesena […] proclaimed as a matter of faith and doctrine the poverty of Christ. A worth resolution, meant to safeguard the virtue and purity of the order, it highly displeased the Pope, who perhaps discerned in it a principle that would jeopardize the very claims that he, as head of the church, had made, denying the empire the right to elect bishops, and asserting on the contrary that the papal throne had the right to invest the emperor.
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Michael of Cesena Quotes in The Name of the Rose
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"Naturally, A Manuscript" and Prologue
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Michael of Cesena […] proclaimed as a matter of faith and doctrine the poverty of Christ. A worth resolution, meant to safeguard the virtue and purity of the order, it highly displeased the Pope, who perhaps discerned in it a principle that would jeopardize the very claims that he, as head of the church, had made, denying the empire the right to elect bishops, and asserting on the contrary that the papal throne had the right to invest the emperor.
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