Cleansing the Temple: Dante, Defender of the Church: Bernardo Lecture Series, No. 20 by Ronald L. Martinez

Cleansing the Temple: Dante, Defender of the Church: Bernardo Lecture Series, No. 20

Bernardo Lecture

Ronald L. Martinez

60 pages missing pub info (editions)

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Readers of the Commedia are familiar with Dante's severe judgment of contemporary popes. The attacks are explicable as part of Dante's strategy of defending the Church itself, which the poet saw as imperiled by papal avarice and political ambition...

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