Cacciaguida

Defending the 12th century since the 14th; blogging since the 21st.

Catholicism, Conservatism, the Middle Ages, Opera, and Historical and Literary Objets d'Art blogged by a suburban dad who teaches law and writes stuff.


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Who was Cacciaguida? See Dante's PARADISO, Cantos XV, XVI, & XVII.


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Saturday, January 19, 2008
 
It ain't Baroque, and it still needs fixin': The votes are in, and the winner -- that is, the new Superior General of the Jesuits -- is Fr. Adolfo Nicolás. The American Papist aggregates early commentary here. If you were expecting the Jesuits to start setting the world on fire again the way they did in 16th and 17th centuries, looks like, um, probably not. But then, I wasn't.