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Paperback ON THE CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD (De contemptu mundi): Bilingual edition English - Latin Book

ISBN: B0CVN4B182

ISBN13: 9798879346114

ON THE CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD (De contemptu mundi): Bilingual edition English - Latin

De contemptu mundi (On Contempt for the World) is the most well-known work of Bernard of Cluny. It is a 3,000 verse poem of stinging satire directed against the secular and religious failings he observed in the world around him. He spares no one; priests, nuns, bishops, monks, and even Rome itself are mercilessly scourged for their shortcomings. For this reason it was first printed by Matthias Flacius in Varia poemata de...

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