Title: FALLEN ORDER: Intrigue, Heresy, and Scandal in the Rome of Galileo and Caravaggio
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0802117848
ISBN 13: 9780802117847
Binding: Half-Leather
Edition: First American
Condition: Very Good -
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -
Book Type: Ex-Library

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A multifaceted study of seventeenth-century Rome captures the political intrigues, personal rivalries, and Byzantine workings of the Vatican and the Catholic Church in a study of the Piarist Order, an educational order abolished in 1646 because of the sexual abuse of children and the cover-ups and deceptions practiced by the Church. 25,000 first printing.

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Karen Liebreich has a doctorate in history from Cambridge University and a research diploma from the European University Institute in Florence. She has worked as a cultural assistant for the French Institute in London, and has been a television documentary researcher and producer. She is the author of Fallen Order: Intrigue, Heresy and Scandal in the Rome of Galileo and Caravaggio (2004) and The Letter in the Bottle: A True Story (2006).

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