Editing Pope Boniface VIII (section)

==In culture==
{{more citations needed|section|date=December 2019}}
[[File:Opera del duomo (FI), arnolfo di cambio, Bonifacio VIII , 1298 circa, 03.JPG|thumb|Statue of Pope Boniface VIII at the [[Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence)|Museo dell'Opera del Duomo]] in [[Florence]]]]

* In his ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'', [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] portrayed Boniface VIII being punished in hell for [[simony]], even though Boniface was still alive at the date of the poem's story. Boniface's eventual destiny is revealed to Dante by [[Pope Nicholas III]], whom he meets in the [[Malebolge|eighth circle]] of hell. A bit later in the ''Inferno'', Dante recalls the pontiff's feud with the Colonna family, which led him to demolish the city of [[Palestrina]], killing 6,000 citizens and destroying both the home of [[Julius Caesar]] and a [[Veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church|shrine to Mary]]. Boniface's ultimate fate is confirmed by Beatrice when Dante visits Heaven. It is notable that he does not adopt Guillaume de Nogaret's aspersion that Boniface VIII was a 'sodomite', however, and does not assign him to that circle of hell (although simony was placed in the eighth circle of fraud, below sodomy, in the seventh circle of violence, designating it as a worse offense and taking precedence above activities of sodomy). 
* He is also mentioned in [[François Rabelais]]'s ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]''. In the chapter that Epistemos lists the inhabitants of hell and their occupations, he says that Boniface was (in one translation) "skimming the scum off soup pots".
* Boniface's title in the [[Prophecy of the Popes]] is "From the Blessing of the Waves".
* The mathematician and astronomer [[Campanus of Novara]] served as personal physician or perhaps only as a chaplain to Pope Boniface VIII.<ref>Robin Healey, ''Italian Literature Before 1900 In English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography 1929–2008'', page 390 (University of Toronto Press Incorporated, 2011). {{ISBN|978-1-4426-4269-0}}. He is not listed as a physician of Boniface VIII by Gaetano Marini, ''Degli archiatri pontificj'' I (Roma: Pagliarini 1784), pp. 32–42.</ref> Campano died at Viterbo in 1296.
* In [[Giovanni Boccaccio]]'s ''[[The Decameron|Decameron]]'', Boniface VIII is [[satire|satirically]] depicted granting a [[highwayman]] ([[Ghino di Tacco]]) a priorate (Day 10, second tale). Earlier (I.i), Boniface VIII is also mentioned for his role in sending Charles, Count of Valois to [[Florence]] in 1300 to end the feud between the Black and White Guelphs.
* The Tale of Pope Boniface is told in Book 2 of [[John Gower]]'s ''[[Confessio Amantis]]'' as an ''exemplum'' of the sin of fraudulently supplanting others. Gower claims that Boniface tricked Pope Celestine V into abdicating by having a young cleric, pretending to be the voice of God, speak to him while he was sleeping and convince him to abdicate (ll. 2861–2900). Gower also repeats the rumour that Boniface died by gnawing off his own hands, but attributes it to hunger rather than a deliberate suicide attempt (ll. 3027–28). 
* Boniface was a patron of [[Giotto]].
* Boniface had the churches of [[Rome]] restored for the Great Jubilee of 1300, particularly [[Old St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's Basilica]], the [[Archbasilica of St. John Lateran|Lateran Basilica]], and the [[Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore]].
* Pope Boniface VIII is a main character played by [[Jim Carter (actor)|Jim Carter]] in the [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History]] Channel television show ''[[Knightfall (TV series)|Knightfall]]''. Boniface is portrayed as a warm and avuncular man and a seasoned politician, who acts as a stabilizing, incorruptible force within a corrupt medieval world. The Knights Templar value him as their Holy leader, and they are willing to execute his orders without question. Boniface personally appoints Landry the new Master and Commander of the Paris Temple after Godfrey's assassination, and entrusts him with the mission of finding the Holy Grail, hoping to use it to launch a new Crusade and reclaim the Holy Land.