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More pagan temple than church, it served as a mausoleum for the cultivated but cruel tyrant, Sigismondo Malatesta, and his mistress (later wife), Isotta degli Atti.
Village festivals and processions bear witness to the heavy rural attachment to religion and even pagan superstition harking back to ancient times.
The lively secular and pagan mosaics from Pompeii’s patrician villas make a striking contrast with the rigid formality of church mosaics that we see elsewhere in Italy.
But there’s all the difference in the world between the prudent, close-mouthed Norman and the vociferous, easy-going Provençal, between the pious Breton and the pagan sophisticate of Paris.
Polytheism, however, persisted until 529, when an edict by Emperor Justinian outlawed the last “pagan” temples and closed the famous Athenian schools of philosophy.
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