3 April 1327 A.D. Pope Damns as a “Son of Perdition” Marsilius of Padua, the Author of Defensor pacis
3 April 1327 A.D. Pope Damns as a “Son of Perdition” Marsilius of Padua, the Author of Defensor pacis Editors. “Marsilius of Padua and John of Jandun.” Christianity.com. Apr 2007. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1201-1500/marsilius-of-padua-and-john-of-jandun-11629856.html . Accessed 1 Apr 2015. Marsilius of Padua denounced the papacy, blaming the popes for the miseries of Italy. Papal excommunication and interdicts had interfered with lawful governments, he alleged, subjecting Italy to crime, wars, corruption and many other blights. In his book Defensor pacis, Marsilius reasoned that the state should run its own affairs without interference from the church. Two kinds of government exist: that which rules with the consent of people and that which rules without. The latter is tyranny. The ideal government not only rules with the consent of the people but by election, said Marsilius. Believe it or not, he was writing in the fourteen...