Boniface VIII was born on 1235[1] in Anagni[2]. He died on October 11, 1303[3], in Rome[4]. He worked as a Catholic priest[5] and writer[6]. He ranks in the top 0.67% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,708 views/month, #6,702 of 1,000,298).[7]
Depicted by: Boniface VIII declaring the Jubilee Year of 1300[29], Statue of Bonifacius VIII[30], Statue of Bonifacius VIII in the Palace of the Popes[31]
Described by source: Nordisk familjebok[32], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[33], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[34], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[35], Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia[36], BEIC Digital Library[37], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[38], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[39], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[40]
Languages spoken, written or signed: Latin[45], Italian[46]
Present in work: The Decameron[47], Day 1 Tale 1 of the Decameron[48], Story of a Humble Christian[49], The Divine Comedy[50]
Why It Matters
Boniface VIII has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] He is known by 82 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]
Works attributed to him include Unam sanctam[53], a papal bull[54]; Ausculta Fili[55], a papal bull[56]; Clericis laicos[57], a papal bull[58]; Liber Sextus[59], a sources of law[60]; and Antiquorum habet fida relatio[61], an Indication bull[62].
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