In recent weeks, the pope has cited on several occasions Alessandro Manzoni's book, \u201cThe Betrothed.\u201d It's undoubtedly one of the pope's favorite novels. Early in his pontificate, he even confessed that he had read it at least three times. He even knows the beginning by heart.<\/p>\n
The pope quoted one of the novel's protagonists during his homily at the Easter Vigil.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> \u201cThe Betrothed\u201d isn't the only classic the pope loves. He is also well-acquainted with Dante Alighieri's \u201cDivine Comedy,\u201d a fundamental part of Italian literature.<\/p>\n The pope's taste is wide-ranging. He's passionate about the works of German poet Friedrich H\u00f6lderlin and English Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins, who belonged to the Oxford Movement.<\/p>\n He also confided to Vladimir Putin that he was a fan of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. In fact, he cited \u201cThe Brothers Karamazov\u201d during his trip to Abu Dhabi, and he praised the humanity of its characters in his recent interview with Austen Ivereigh.<\/p>\n When he was a young literature professor, Bergoglio invited Jorge Luis Borges to give his students a creative writing class.<\/p>\n In those years, he would recommend to his students Ethel Mannin's \u201cLate Have I Loved Thee.\u201d<\/p>\n He also advised journalists to read the apocalyptic novel, \u201cLord of the World,\u201d by English author Robert Hugh Benson.<\/p>\n JMB\/CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 23, 2020. In recent weeks, the pope has cited, several times, Alessandro Manzoni's \u201cThe Betrothed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rXs2xbq-G5E","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/blibrospapafrancescoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/blibrospapafrancescoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIf, on your journey, you feel weak and frail, or fall, do not be afraid. God holds out a helping hand and says to you, 'Courage!' You might say, as did Don Abbondio, 'Courage is not something you can give yourself.'<\/em><\/p>\n