Giotto's influence is seen in the local school in Rome (Maestro di Vescovio, Cavallini) as he spent several years there around 1280. Very little art is left of this period. A fragment of a fresco remains celebrating the Jubilee of 1300 that was organized by Pope Boniface VIII. This pope was scorned by Dante for his fatuousness and meddling in the affairs of Florence, a relatively free city with a Republic [More on Boniface].