It was in 1200 that he became a Cistercian, and he died in 1233. It would be pleasant to know that he atoned for his youthful follies by an old age of virtues. But unfortunately for his fame, the old nightingale became a bird of prey. He was deeply implicated in the persecutions of the Albigenses, and the blood of those “slaughtered saints” makes a ghastly rubric in his breviary. ↩

Dido, queen of Carthage. The Ottimo says:⁠—

“He seems to mean, that Folco loved indifferently married women, virgins, and widows, gentle and simple.”

“He seems to mean, that Folco loved indifferently married women, virgins, and widows, gentle and simple.”

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