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text="#FFFFFF" link="#00FFFF"> <img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/illustrissimi1.JPG" width="312" height="51"> Letters from the Patriarch of Venice, Albino Luciani     <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" width="95%" height="1006"> <tr> <td width="14%" align="center" height="80"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141023050347/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/illustrious/gesu2.htm" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/gesu1a.JPG" width="58" height="78" alt="To Jesus - "I write trembling""></a> </td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="80"> <img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/goldoni1a.JPG" width="56" height="78" alt="To Carlo Goldoni: "The feminists and St. Vilgefortis' beard""> </td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="80"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/hofer1a.JPG" width="57" height="76" alt="To Andreas Hofer: "The calling from the Iselberg""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" colspan="2" height="80"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/penelope1a.JPG" width="62" height="76" alt="To Penelope: "In the good luck and in the bad luck""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="80"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/bernardino1a.JPG" width="50" height="70" alt="To Saint Bernardine: "Seven rules" still useful"></td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="80"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/teresita1a.JPG" width="53" height="74" alt="To SaintTheresa of Lisieux: "Joy, exquisite charity""></td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="80"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141023050347/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/illustrious/pinocchio2.htm" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/pinocchio1a.JPG" width="54" height="75" alt="To Pinocho: "When you fall in love""></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="14%" align="center" height="96"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/buenaventura1a.JPG" width="52" height="75" alt="To Saint Bonaventura: " 'Baron' also him?""></td> <td width="71%" colspan="6" rowspan="5" height="521">   <img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/duepatr.JPG" width="432" height="505">  </td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="96"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/manzoni1a.JPG" width="53" height="75" alt="To Alessandro Manzoni: "The only aristocracy""></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="14%" align="center" height="100"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141023050347/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/illustrious/david2.htm" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/david1a.JPG" width="58" height="68" alt="To King David: "The funerals of my pride""></a></td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="100"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/twain1a.JPG" width="55" height="78" alt="To Mark Twain: "Three Mr. John in one""></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="14%" align="center" height="98"> <img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/dickens1a.JPG" width="54" height="75" alt="To Charles Dickens: "We are at the bottom""></td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="98"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/petrarca1a.JPG" width="58" height="77" alt="To Petrarca: "Confession 600 years later""></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="14%" align="center" height="114"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/orsosanromedio2a.JPG" width="47" height="90" alt="To the Bear of St. Romedio: "Dirty mouth""></td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="114"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/stateresa1a.JPG" width="55" height="76" alt="To St. Theresa of Avila: "Theresa, one coin and God""></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="14%" align="center" height="97"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/goethe1a.JPG" width="54" height="76" alt="To Wolfgang Goethe: "Nobility obliges""></td> <td width="15%" height="97"> <img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/scott1a.JPG" width="58" height="76" alt="To Sir Walter Scott: "Nostalgia of the cleaning""></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="14%" align="center" height="88"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/alvise1a.JPG" width="56" height="79" alt="To Alvise Cornaro: "We are old, are we on our last legs?""></td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="88"> <img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/gonzalo1a.JPG" width="56" height="76" alt="To Don Gonzalo Fer醤dez of C髍doba: "The guerrilla' s bells""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="88"> <img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/sales1a.JPG" width="48" height="77" alt="To St. Francis of Sales: "On God' s ship""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" colspan="2" height="88"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/lucas1a.JPG" width="49" height="76" alt="To St. Luke, the Evangelist: "No forbide""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="88"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/quintiliano1a.JPG" width="47" height="77" alt="To Quintiliano: "Other times, other school...""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="88"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/peguy1a.JPG" width="49" height="77" alt="To Charles P間uy: "We are God' s astonishment""></td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="88"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/sanbernardo1a.JPG" width="54" height="74" alt="To St. Bernard: "If you govern, be prudent""></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="14%" align="center" height="88"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/hipocrates1a.JPG" width="56" height="76" alt="To Hipocrate: "The four moods""></td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="88"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/cicikov1a.JPG" width="60" height="78" alt="To Pavel J. Cicikov: "Time of impostors""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="88"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/dupanloup1a.JPG" width="54" height="79" alt="To Felix Dupanloup: "We have texts, but what about heads?""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" colspan="2" height="88"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/marconi1a.JPG" width="54" height="77" alt="To Guglielmo Marconi: "You would see extraordinary things""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="88"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141023050347/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/illustrious/mariateresa2.htm" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/mariateresa1a.JPG" width="50" height="72" alt="To Mary Theresa of Austria: "Beautiful without extravagancies""></a></td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="88"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/marlowe1a.JPG" width="52" height="77" alt="To Christopher Marlowe: "The most successful mockery of the devil""></td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="88"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/belli1a.JPG" width="56" height="77" alt="To Giuseppe G. Belli: "Words, words, words...""></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="14%" align="center" height="94"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/paolo1a.JPG" width="56" height="79" alt="To Paul, the Deacon: "The bad habit of holidays""></td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="94"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/chesterton1a.JPG" width="58" height="76" alt="To Gilbert K. Chesterton: "In what kind of world...""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="94"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/lemuel1a.JPG" width="54" height="78" alt="To Lemuel, King of Massa: "King Lemuel and the ideal woman""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" colspan="2" height="94"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/trilussa1a.JPG" width="53" height="77" alt="To Trilussa: "In the heart of the mistery""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="94"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/manuzio1a.JPG" width="55" height="77" alt="To Aldo Manuzio: "From the times of the 'Gobo di Rialto' ""></td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="94"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/pintor1a.JPG" width="61" height="76" alt="To the unknown painter of the castle: " Four paintings in the old castle""></td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="94"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/casella1a.JPG" width="56" height="79" alt="To Casella, musician: "The music of riconciliation""></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%" align="center" colspan="4" height="61"> <img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/pickwick1a.JPG" width="70" height="53" align="right" alt="To the four ones from the Pickwick Club: "The mistakes and the scale of Mohs""></td> <td width="50%" align="center" colspan="4" height="61"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141023050347/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/illustrious/figaro2.htm" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="/web/20141023050347im_/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/figaro1a.JPG" align="left" width="61" height="52" alt="To Figaro, the barber: "Revolution for the revolution""></a></td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 12.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="center">  <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 12.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="center">  <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 12.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="center">  <div align="center"> <table border="0"> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 12.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="left">Only available: <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 12.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="left">  <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 12.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="left">To Jesus: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141023050347/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/illustrious/gesu2.htm" target="_blank">I write trembling</a> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 12.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="left">To Pinocchio: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141023050347/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/illustrious/pinocchio2.htm" target="_blank">When you Fall in Love</a> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 12.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="left">To King David: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141023050347/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/illustrious/david2.htm" target="_blank">The Funerals of my Pride</a> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 12.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="left">To Mary Theresa of Austria: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141023050347/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/illustrious/mariateresa2.htm" target="_blank">Beautiful without Extravagancies</a> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 12.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="left">To Figaro, the barber: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141023050347/http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/teachings/letters/illustrious/figaro2.htm" target="_blank">Revolution for the Revolution</a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; 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