Pierre de La Broce - Divine Comedy

Divine Comedy

De la Broce appears in Dante's Purgatory, in Canto VI, with the other spirits of those who, though redeemed, were prevented from making a final confession and reconciliation due to having died by violence:

I saw the soul
cleft from its body out of spite and envy --
not, so it said, because it had been guilty --
I mean Pier de la Brosse,
and may the Lady of Brabant
while she's still in this world, watch
her ways—or end among a sadder flock
(from Allen Mandelbaum's translation)

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Name Broce, Pierre De La
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Date of death June 30, 1278
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