On the ‘Sleeping Hero’ Legends
Some thoughts about a very moving element of European folklore.
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The Death Penalty Abolition Movement and Modernism
“Pistoia! Pistoia! why have you not decreed
to turn yourself to ashes and end your days,
rather than to spread the evil of your seed!”
– Inferno, XXV. 10-12 (trans. by Ciardi).