Bishop Benito Cocchi began by reading out the telegram of condolences sent by Pope Benedict XVI, who said Pavarotti honored the divine gift of music.

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Although Socrates and his interlocutor probed whether virtue could be taught, the conclusion reached, in the last paragraph, is that it cannot, since all efforts at defining it failed, and that it was instead a divine gift.

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