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.
Subsequently, he was appointed Archbishop of Florence in 1287. However, he was transferred by Pope Boniface VIII to Vicenza in 1295, as a result of a scandal that earned him a place in Dante's literary work, The Inferno.