Can the Pope, like the tyrants, sit upon a seat of bayonets?
Giuseppe Garibaldi: “Can the Pope, like the tyrants, sit upon a seat of bayonets?”
Editor's note · Context
Garibaldi questions the moral and practical viability of the Pope maintaining temporal power through military force, likening him to other despots.
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