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

6 June 2026 at 05:00

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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