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Elizabeth Lev

ELIZABETH LEV is an American-born, Rome-based art historian. She teaches at Duquesne University’s Italian campus and has conducted tours of Italy for more than 20 years. She is the author of four books, the latest being How Catholic Art Saved the Faith.

Way of Beauty

Unescapable death

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by Elizabeth Lev In the late 12th century, Ubaldo Lanfranchi, archbishop of Pisa, returned from the Holy Land to his native city. As papal legate to the Third Crusade, he traveled with 52 ships, which he had filled with dirt from Mount…