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The audience included fifty acadees of their careers Professor Picton and Professor Marinelli sat in the front row near Gabriel All three sers, she placed the pages of her paper on top of the lectern In contrast with it, her petite form seemed even smaller Professor Patel adjusted the microphone doard so that it would catch her voice

She looked young and pale and nervous Gabriel caught her chewing at the inside of her rateful when she stopped

With her eyes fixed on his, she took a deep breath and began

“The title of my presentation is ‘The Silence of St Francis: A Witness to Fraud’”

“In canto twenty-seven of Dante’s Inferno, Guido da Montefeltro tells the story of what happened after he died,

‘Francis came afterward, when I was dead,

For me; but one of the black Cherubi;

He ave the fraudulent advice

From which time forth I have been at his hair;

For who repents not cannot be absolved,

Nor can one both repent and will at once,

Because of the contradiction which consents not”

O miserable : “Peradventure

Thou didst not think that I was a logician!” ’

“Guido lived in Italy from about 1220 to 1298 He was a pro in order to become a Franciscan, around 1296 Afterward, Pope Boniface VIII persuaded hiive fraudulent counsel to the Colonna fa trouble