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"text": "Instead, Zaccharia urges them to fight the \"infidel\" Turks as he elaborates in another poem on the Holy League. This is the only way, he asserts, that the Holy League will receive the support of God, who will unleash his heavenly army and send \"his Angel from the highest cloister to take bitter and hard revenge\"; the only way \"that the power and malicious anger of the dragon will be oppressed, which will generate his ultimate ruin.\"",
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