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S8 Ep1111: Preview for Later Today: Veronique de Rugy reflects on a Siena fresco contrasting good and bad government. She explores how arbitrary justice leads to societal decay and family destruction, noting that contemporary governance often struggles with these sa

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 9 July 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Preview for Later Today: Veronique de Rugy reflects on a Siena fresco contrasting good and bad government. She explores how arbitrary justice leads to societal decay and family destruction, noting that contemporary governance often struggles with these same issues. (2)
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In conversation with my colleague, Bernique de Reggie, she recalled a visit to Siena and a fresco painted for the government

0:40.0

officials in Siena, an Italian city in Italy, in Tuscany that's known for its beauty and its food.

0:46.9

But this fresco was directed at a government.

0:49.3

On one side was a picture of good government, on the other side, bad government.

0:54.4

The choice was obvious in the representation of the same creatures, figures, people, attitudes,

1:03.1

on one side benevolent, on the other side malevolent.

1:07.6

Here, Baronek describes the choices we all make in government and have today, 700 years

1:13.2

after Ambrosio Laranzetti completed his fresco for Siena in the Palazzo Publico, the government

1:25.8

house. Here's Bernic. morton no i think i think we're not i mean the the whole

1:33.9

what's interesting in the and the good government side and the village there's a village with

1:38.8

with with with craftmen working and with uh people harvesting the fields and there are as you said like a couple

1:46.7

getting married and and and their invitees are like dancing and it's and there's peaceful and

1:53.2

justice is flying over the field um um and there's a sense that justice is not arbitrary and on the

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