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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · pier luigi farnese · justice as a virtue · god’s justice · divination and oracles · apology
Usually: dialogue (1) · detachment (1) · reverence (1)
The Duke of Parma and Piacenza, Pier Luigi Farnese (meeting Benvenuto in the duchy), debates whether to apologize for Benvenuto’s Roman imprisonment, and Benvenuto interprets God’s justice in the encounter.
do so; but that if I had completed those extensive works begun for the King, I should be disposed to quit any great prince merely to enter his Excellency’s service. Hereby it may be seen how the power and goodness of God never leave unpunished any sort or quality of men who act unjustly toward the innocent. This man did what was equivalent to begging my pardon in the presence of those very persons who subsequently t…