The Pope Who Would be King

Category: History: Europe: Vatican City

Publishing Information: 2018 by Random House

ISBN: 0812989910

Binding: hardcover

Description: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern ì Europe

Only two years after Pope Pius IX's election in 1846 had ì triggered great popular enthusiasm across Italy, the pope found ì himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. The revolutions ì that swept through Europe and shook Rome threatened to end the ì popes' thousand-year reign over the Papal States, if not the ì papacy itself. The resulting drama-with a colorful cast of ì characters, from Louis Napoleon and his rabble-rousing cousin ì Charles Bonaparte to Garibaldi, Tocqueville, and Metternich-was ì rife with treachery, tragedy, and international power politics. ì David Kertzer, one of the world's foremost experts on the history ì of Italy and the Vatican, brings this pivotal moment vividly to ì life.

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