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EI Weekly Listen - Maurizio Viroli on the virtues of the city-state

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Roman Catholicism and the Republican Faith

Italian city republics produced and were the product of a particular kind of christianity. It was sustained by a religious sentiment that cultivated charity, he writes. That kind of civil christianity also taught that christian virtue is strength, i believe it is fair to call it. All the important meetings of the deliberative bodies of italian republics were eded by the holy mass and prayers.

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