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Pious, lions, innocents: What does culture tell us about popes?

Urban VIII corresponded with Francisco de Quevedo, Alexander VII spent his leisure time as pope writing little poems in Latin, and John Paul II — who had studied St. John of the Cross in his youth — even published a collection of poems, Roman Triptych (2003), while still occupying the Chair of Saint Peter.

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‘Study for portrait II’ (1956). Francis Bacon.
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