Andrea dei Mozzi

Andrea dei Mozzi (died 1296) was an Italian bishop, from the Mozzi family of bankers. He was a papal chaplain, for Pope Alexander IV and Pope Gregory IX.[1] He was then appointed as Archbishop of Florence in 1287. He was transferred by Pope Boniface VIII to Vicenza, in 1295, in a scandal that made him a character in Dante's The Inferno.[2]

He had a nephew of the same name.[3]

  1. ^ "ANDREA de' MOZZI Inf. XV, 112". Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca Per lo Sviluppo sostenibile (in Italian). Archived from the original on 3 June 2006. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  2. ^ Ferrante, Joan M. (2000). "The Corrupt Society". The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy. Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/2853993. JSTOR j.ctt7zvgqq. Archived from the original on 8 September 2006. Retrieved 10 January 2007. Dante takes the traditional line that Andrea's offence was sodomy
  3. ^ Heijden, Maarten van der; Roest, Bert (8 January 2018). "Andreas de Mozzis (Andrea de'Mozzi, fl. early fourteenth cent.)". Franciscan Authors 13th - 18th Century: A Catalogue In Progress. Retrieved 29 June 2018.