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Thursday, October 15, 2015

TANNHAUSERIANA: URBANO IV

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Up to some time there had been nothing to connect him with the old paradise story so long as that story was told to preach a moral, but once the anti-papal spirit had crept in there were points in his life which made him not an unfitting character for the myth. 

Just such a hand as wrought the learned change in the name introduced the pope Urban IV. 

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