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[quote=""keny from prague""]"the bad popes" by e r chamberlin (re-read)[/quote]
I read that, it's a good and interesting book.
SM
I read that, it's a good and interesting book.
SM
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- Kveto from Prague
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Keny, have you read Richard Condon's book "A Trembling Upon Rome"? It's a novel about the Great Schism, fairly satirical in tone, (the Papacy as Mafia) but you might find it interesting.
Synopsis:
Papal history without pomp, circumstance, or spirituality--as chilly novelist Condon (Prizzi's Honor, etc.) details the largely factual 1390-1415 story of Baldassare Cossa, a soldier/pimp/entrepreneur who became mercenary Pope John XXIII. . . and the fatalistic, much-betrayed pawn of rising banker Cosimo di Medici. The off-and-on narrator here is Franco Ellera, Jewish slave to the Cossas, a pirate family of Naples.
Synopsis:
Papal history without pomp, circumstance, or spirituality--as chilly novelist Condon (Prizzi's Honor, etc.) details the largely factual 1390-1415 story of Baldassare Cossa, a soldier/pimp/entrepreneur who became mercenary Pope John XXIII. . . and the fatalistic, much-betrayed pawn of rising banker Cosimo di Medici. The off-and-on narrator here is Franco Ellera, Jewish slave to the Cossas, a pirate family of Naples.
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[quote=""annis""]Keny, have you read Richard Condon's book "A Trembling Upon Rome"? It's a novel about the Great Schism, fairly satirical in tone, (the Papacy as Mafia) but you might find it interesting.
Synopsis:
Papal history without pomp, circumstance, or spirituality--as chilly novelist Condon (Prizzi's Honor, etc.) details the largely factual 1390-1415 story of Baldassare Cossa, a soldier/pimp/entrepreneur who became mercenary Pope John XXIII. . . and the fatalistic, much-betrayed pawn of rising banker Cosimo di Medici. The off-and-on narrator here is Franco Ellera, Jewish slave to the Cossas, a pirate family of Naples.[/quote]
hey, Annis. yes, i read that one several years ago and liked it (other than the poor portrayal of Jan Hus). My favourite part was when he tried to make the Jewish Ellera a bishop and couldnt understand why it wasnt possible.
I found it make Cossa a sympathetic character, which was nice.
Synopsis:
Papal history without pomp, circumstance, or spirituality--as chilly novelist Condon (Prizzi's Honor, etc.) details the largely factual 1390-1415 story of Baldassare Cossa, a soldier/pimp/entrepreneur who became mercenary Pope John XXIII. . . and the fatalistic, much-betrayed pawn of rising banker Cosimo di Medici. The off-and-on narrator here is Franco Ellera, Jewish slave to the Cossas, a pirate family of Naples.[/quote]
hey, Annis. yes, i read that one several years ago and liked it (other than the poor portrayal of Jan Hus). My favourite part was when he tried to make the Jewish Ellera a bishop and couldnt understand why it wasnt possible.
I found it make Cossa a sympathetic character, which was nice.
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