Yes, Dante was Catholic and has some of the most descriptive language ever of the Popes in Hell and the horrifying rings of Satan. Wonder what all he knew about the popes?
IIRC, at least one of the popes he puts in Hell was someone he disagreed with politically. Most of the popes he puts in Purgatory (quite different that from the vulgar image) or in Heaven, enjoying the Beatific Vision. There is no evidence that he hated — or even questioned — the Papacy as an office, only that he thought some of those who held it were — to put it mildly — unworthy.
Wonder what all he knew about the popes?
He knew formally that Popes are not "impeccable" and practically that some of them were very wicked.