Guido da Montefeltro's Deception by Pope Boniface VIII

Another flame approaches, and from it speaks Guido da Montefeltro, a former Ghibelline leader who became a Franciscan friar. He tells how Pope Boniface VIII, needing advice to capture Palestrina, absolved him in advance for the sin of giving fraudulent counsel. Guido advised 'long promise, short fulfilment,' and was damned when a black cherub argued that absolution without repentance is impossible. Minos sent him to the eighth Bolgia. This episode condemns the corruption of the papacy and the misuse of the power of the keys, and explores the theme of false counsel.