Keywords

• The Innocent IIIâ€
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• s Dream of the Lateran is the first of three scenes at the bottom of the great Giottoâ€
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• s painting on the Stigmatization of saint Francis that was once in the church of San Francesco in Pisa and is now at the Louvre museum. Two details deviate from the usual iconography of this subject: the fact that saint Peter acts as the guide for the dream of Innocent III and the fact that the cathedralâ€
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• s porch presents a single column that is oddly breaking in two pieces. These details can be explained by recalling the coat of arms of the Colonna family
• the hatred of Boniface VIII for the Colonnas
• as opposed to the love for that same family on the part of Nicolas IV
• the first Franciscan pope who paid homage to the Colonnas in the last scene of the frescoes in the upper church of San Francesco in Assisi