The Pope Who Would Be King
The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe
(Sprache: Englisch)
The untold story of the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political power and signalled the birth of modern Europe.
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The untold story of the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political power and signalled the birth of modern Europe.
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Days after the assassination of his prime minister in the middle of Rome in November 1848, Pope Pius IX found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. The wave of revolution that had swept through Europe now seemed poised to put an end to the popes' thousand-year reign over the Papal States, if not indeed to the papacy itself. Disguising himself as a simple parish priest, Pius escaped through a back door. Climbing inside the Bavarian ambassador's carriage, he embarked on a journey into a fateful exile.Only two years earlier Pius's election had triggered a wave of optimism across Italy. After the repressive reign of the dour Pope Gregory XVI, Italians saw the youthful, benevolent new pope as the man who would at last bring the Papal States into modern times and help create a new, unified Italian nation. But Pius found himself caught between a desire to please his subjects and a fear--stoked by the cardinals--that heeding the people's pleas would destroy the church. The resulting drama--with a colorful cast of characters, from Louis Napoleon and his rabble-rousing cousin Charles Bonaparte to Garibaldi, Tocqueville, and Metternich--was rife with treachery, tragedy, and international power politics.
David Kertzer is one of the world's foremost experts on the history of Italy and the Vatican, and has a rare ability to bring history vividly to life. With a combination of gripping, cinematic storytelling, and keen historical analysis rooted in an unprecedented richness of archival sources, The Pope Who Would Be King sheds fascinating new light on the end of rule by divine right in the west and the emergence of modern Europe.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Pope Who Would Be King “
- Prologue
- Part 1: The Beloved
- 1: The Conclave
- 2: The Fox and the Crow
- 3: An Impossible Dilemma
- 4: Papal Magic
- 5: The Tide Turns
- 6: Fending Off Disaster
- 7: The Assassination
- 8: The Escape
- Part II: The Reviled
- 9: The Reactionary Turn
- 10: Revolution
- 11: Pressuring the Pope
- 12: The Friendly Army
- 13: The French Attack
- 14: Negotiating in Bad Faith
- 15: Battling For Rome
- 16: The Conquest
- 17: The Occupation
- Part III: The Feared
- 18: Applying the Brakes
- 19: Louis Napoleon and The Pope
- 20: The Unpopular Pope
- 21: "Those Wicked Enemies of God"
- 22: Returning to Rome
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von David I. Kertzer
David I. Kertzer is the Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University, where he served as provost from 2006 to 2011. He is the author of twelve books, including The Pope and Mussolini, also published by OUP and winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for biography; The Popes Against the Jews, a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize; and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997. He has twice been awarded the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best book on Italian history, and in 2005 was elected to membership in the American Association of Arts and Sciences. He and his wife, Susan, live in Providence, Rhode Island, and Harpswell, Maine.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David I. Kertzer
- 2018, 512 Seiten, Maße: 16,3 x 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198827490
- ISBN-13: 9780198827498
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.05.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Grippingly written, pageturning and scholarly, this book is an immense achievement which few can hope to equal. This is a magni?cent book; analysis and narrative at their ?nest. Ambrogio A. Caiani, Journal Of Ecclesiastical History
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