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).
“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).
“Once you have carefully read this confutation of Brother Riccoldo, then you will learn for the first time how empty this religion is, how worthless, how lacking in substance; and how it has nothing of importance to say for our present day.”
– Bartholemaeus de Monte Arduo to Ferdinand II of Aragon