Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes' Secret Plot to Capture Rome from the New Italian State

Kertzer, David I.

ISBN 10: 0618224424 / ISBN 13: 9780618224425

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 2004

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Glued binding. Paper over boards. x, 357, [1] p. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. References Cited. Illustration Sources. Index. From Wikipedia: "David I. Kertzer (born February 20, 1948 in New York City) is an American anthropologist, historian, and academic leader specializing in the political, and religious history of Italy. His book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Kertzer is the author of numerous books on politics and culture, European social history, demography, contemporary Italian society and politics, and the history of Vatican relations with the Jews and the Italian state. His The Popes Against the Jews was published in 2001. The follow-up work The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (2014) examined evidence from the Vatican archives, arguing that Pope Pius XI played a significant role in supporting the rise of Fascism and Benito Mussolini in Italy, but not Nazi Germany.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes' Secret Plot to Capture Rome from the New Italian State
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618224424
• ISBN 13: 9780618224425
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition. First printing [stated].
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good

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Synopsis

Draws on previously unknown documents from the Vatican archives to detail a late-nineteenth-century plot on the part of Pope Pius IX and his successor, Leo XIII, to block the unification of Italy and to seize control of Rome and the Papal States, in a colorful history marked by such key individuals as the two pontiffs, Italy's national hero Garibaldi, King Victor Emmanuel, and France's Napoleon III.

About the Authors

David I. Kertzer is the author of, among other books, Prisoner of the Vatican, The Popes Against the Jews, and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. He is provost of Brown University and professor of anthropology and Italian studies.

David I. Kertzer is the Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science at Brown University.