Download or read book I papi Storia e segreti written by Claudio Rendina and published by Newton Compton Editori. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 1349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Da San Pietro a Papa Francesco Storia e segreti Tra leggende e documenti storici, cronaca e racconti popolari Rivivono gli intrighi e le passioni, le opere e i peccati, i vizi e le virtù dei pontefici Nuova edizione aggiornata Il 13 marzo 2013, dopo soli cinque scrutini, il conclave elegge Jorge Mario Bergoglio, che prende il nome di papa Francesco. L’entusiasmo tra i cattolici di tutto il mondo non spegne l’eco delle clamorose dimissioni del suo predecessore, Benedetto XVI. Questo libro, aggiornato all’ultima elezione, con le biografie di tutti e 266 i romani pontefici da san Pietro fino a papa Francesco, rappresenta, come in un lungo racconto, lo sviluppo di quel “potere” emblematico che è il papato nel suo doppio volto, spirituale e temporale. Al “vicario di Cristo” si guarda in queste pagine con occhio attento anche all’aspetto umano, astenendosi da indebite valutazioni teologiche e ridimensionando il mito del personaggio. Di qui un susseguirsi di ritratti ogni volta diversamente concepiti nella loro impostazione. Ora si evidenzia l’aspetto storico e il legame con gli avvenimenti politici del tempo; ora prevale la curiosità, l’aneddoto, l’aspetto folcloristico; ora l’immagine di un papa rivive intrecciata a quella di uno o più antipapi ovvero di un imperatore, e ancora, un concilio o un conclave possono aiutare a capire il vero volto di un pontefice. L’insieme di tutti questi profili permette di cogliere le infinite sfaccettature di una sovranità nei suoi contrastanti momenti di “santità” e “diavoleria”. E ci consente di ripercorrere in vario modo duemila anni di storia, fino agli ultimi avvenimenti del papato. «Non solo per chi ama Roma, ma per chi ama la storia.» La Repubblica La storia dei pontefici dalle origini all’elezione di Francesco Il papa della speranza Dall’autore dei bestseller La santa casta della Chiesa e I peccati del Vaticano Uno scrittore da oltre 500.000 copie Tradotto in sei paesi Claudio Rendina scrittore, poeta, storiografo e romanista, ha legato il suo nome a opere storiche di successo, tra le quali, per la Newton Compton, La grande guida dei monumenti di Roma; I papi. Storia e segreti; Il Vaticano. Storia e segreti; Guida insolita ai misteri, ai segreti, alle leggende e alle curiosità di Roma; Storia insolita di Roma; Le grandi famiglie di Roma; Storie della città di Roma; Alla scoperta di Roma; Gli ordini cavallereschi; Le chiese di Roma; Roma giorno per giorno; La vita segreta dei papi; La santa casta della Chiesa; I peccati del Vaticano; L'oro del Vaticano; Cardinali e cortigiane e 101 misteri e segreti del Vaticano che non ti hanno mai raccontato e che la Chiesa non vorrebbe farti conoscere. Ha diretto la rivista «Roma ieri, oggi, domani» e ha curato La grande enciclopedia di Roma. Ha scritto il libro storico-fotografico Gerusalemme città della pace, pubblicato in quattro lingue. Attualmente firma per «la Repubblica» articoli di storia, arte e folclore e collabora a diverse riviste di carattere storico.
Download or read book Rome written by Robert Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as a city, as an empire, and as an origin of Western art and civilization. Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he first encountered as a hungry twenty-one-year-old fresh from Australia in 1959. From there, he goes back more than two thousand years to the city’s foundation, one mired in mythologies and superstitions that would inform Rome’s development for centuries. He explores in rich detail the formation of empire, the rise of early Christianity, the Crusades, the Renaissance, and takes us up to the present, through the rise and fall of Mussolini’s fascism. Equal parts idolizing, blasphemous, outraged, and awestruck, Rome is a portrait of the Eternal City as only Robert Hughes could paint it.
Download or read book Imperial City written by Susan Vandiver Nicassio and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1798, the armies of the French Revolution tried to transform Rome from the capital of the Papal States to a Jacobin Republic. For the next two decades, Rome was the subject of power struggles between the forces of the Empire and the Papacy, while Romans endured the unsuccessful efforts of Napoleon’s best and brightest to pull the ancient city into the modern world. Against this historical backdrop, Nicassio weaves together an absorbing social, cultural, and political history of Rome and its people. Based on primary sources and incorporating two centuries of Italian, French, and international research, her work reveals what life was like for Romans in the age of Napoleon. “A remarkable book that wonderfully vivifies an understudied era in the history of Rome. . . . This book will engage anyone interested in early modern cities, the relationship between religion and daily life, and the history of the city of Rome.”—Journal of Modern History “An engaging account of Tosca’s Rome. . . . Nicassio provides a fluent introduction to her subject.”—History Today “Meticulously researched, drawing on a host of original manuscripts, memoirs, personal letters, and secondary sources, enabling [Nicassio] to bring her story to life.”—History
Download or read book Papal Genealogy written by George L. Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papacy has often resembled a secular European monarchy more than a divinely inspired institution. Roman pontiffs bestowed great wealth on their families and forged strategic alliances with other powerful families to increase their power. Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), for example, forced his daughter Lucrezia into a series of marriages for political reasons. When her marital alliance was no longer advantageous, as was the case in her second marriage, her husband was brutally murdered. Many papal families also intermarried in hopes of forming a hereditary papacy; at least two members of the Fieschi, Piccolomini, Della Rovere, and Medici families served as pope. Papal families since the early history of the church are fully covered in this comprehensive work. Genealogical charts graphically show the descendants of the popes, presenting in many cases the interrelationships between the papal families and their relationships with many of the leading families of Europe. Detailed histories examine the impact of the papacy on each pope's family and how each influenced the history of the church.
Download or read book From Rome to Byzantium written by Michael Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantium was dismissed by Gibbon, in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,and his Victorian successors as a decadent, dark, oriental culture, given up to intrigue, forbidden pleasure and refined cruelty. This great empire, founded by Constantine as the seat of power in the East began to flourish in the fifth century AD, after the fall of Rome, yet its culture and history have been neglected by scholars in comparison to the privileging of interest in the Western and Roman Empire. Michael Grant's latest book aims to compensate for that neglect and to provide an insight into the nature of the Byzantine Empire in the fifth century; the prevalence of Christianity, the enormity and strangeness of the landscape of Asia Minor; and the history of invasion prior to the genesis of the empire. Michael Grant's narrative is lucid and colourful as always, lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps. He successfully provides an examination of a comparatively unexplored area and constructs the history of an empire which rivals the former richness and diversity of a now fallen Rome.
Download or read book Mental Health Spirituality and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and well-being. The contributors, who originally had presented their research at a symposium at The University of Arizona in May 2013, explore a wide range of approaches and materials pertinent to these issues, taking us from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, capping the volume with some reflections on the relevance of religion today. Lapidary sciences matter here as much as medical-psychological research, combined with literary and art-historical approaches. The premodern understanding of mental health is not taken as a miraculous panacea for modern problems, but the contributors suggest that medieval and early modern writers, scientists, and artists commanded a considerable amount of arcane, sometimes curious and speculative, knowledge that promises to be of value and relevance even for us today, once again. Modern palliative medicine finds, for instance, intriguing parallels in medieval word magic, and the mystical perspectives encapsulated highly productive alternative perceptions of the macrocosm and microcosm that promise to be insightful and important also for the post-modern world.
Download or read book I PAPI I PONTEFICI E LE PROFEZIE PAPALI DI MALACHIA DA CELESTINO II A FRANCESCO Storia e curiosit written by Duilio Chiarle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quante volte abbiamo sentito parlare delle profezie papali di Malachia? Esse vengono rispolverate ogni volta che si deve eleggere un nuovo pontefice, a maggior ragione in questa occasione, nel 2013, in cui la Chiesa cattolica sente l'approssimarsi di una sfida epocale. Tutti i papi della lista di Malachia dal medioevo all'ultimo. Un libro ricco di curiosità e di storia. ATTENZIONE! I Papi citati nel libro sono solo i Papi presenti nelle profezie di Malachia, e quindi non tutti.
Download or read book St Peter s written by Keith Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built by the decree of Constantine, rebuilt by some of the most distinguished architects in Renaissance Italy, emulated by Hitler’s architect in his vision for Germania, immortalized on film by Fellini, and fictionalized by a modern American bestseller, St. Peter’s is the most easily recognizable church in the world. This book is a cultural history of one of the most significant structures in the West. It bears the imprint of Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bernini, and Canova. For Grand Tourists of the eighteenth century, St. Peter’s exemplified the sublime. It continues to fascinate visitors today and appears globally as a familiar symbol of the papacy and of the Catholic Church itself.
Download or read book Paul VI written by Peter Hebblethwaite and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful, highly acclaimed biography of Giovanni Battista Montini, Paul VI, which sheds light on and powerfully underscores the personal and ecclesial sides of a man who brought modernity to the church.
Download or read book Feeling ROME written by Barbara Athanassiadis and published by AA Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the book Feeling ROME "An intimate portrait of the Eternal City" Visiting a city and then describing it in a guide book is very different than living it, breathing in the atmosphere, enjoying its surprises, discovering its details and recounting its hidden personality in an engaging and passionate way. In “Feeling Rome” Barbara Athanassiadis does just that: she introduces us to Rome, the Eternal City, albeit contemplating it from a different perspective, one that is more humane but also more penetrating, revealing the secrets of the particular way of life of the Romans, masterfully balanced between their glorious past and a bright and promising present. At the same time, she delicately touches upon the monuments, palaces, fountains, piazzas and shops of this fascinating city, breathing in the ineffable aura of the "dolce vita" of fashion and art. The author takes readers by the hand on a revealing walk, inviting even the most fanatical admirers of this city to fall in love again, as if it was the first time! «... As I walked through the gate of the Piazza del Popolo, in front of me I saw the square, dominated by the twin churches and the high obelisk, marking the top of the three streets opening like a fan ahead, leading to as many squares with stairs in marble and baroque palaces. Two hundred years before, that same imposing gate had been crossed by Goethe, who, finding himself in the presence of such a spectacle, a prelude to the wonders of the Eternal City, opened his arms and said, 'Now I begin to live!'» The eBook is illustrated with colourful photos. Watch the YouTube book trailer videos of Feeling ROME: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrbC-aJ-0WKuzDPalf_Wfl_WkRNi1NIuy BOOK REVIEWS "Ever the charmer when she hits the paper, Barbara Athanassiadis takes us along on a stroll through Rome, her dwelling city of adoption. As a matter of fact, this journey is bound to take us far beyond the walls of this city and on to a trip to the Holy Land, where the journey turns into a soul-searching experience, as the author endeavors to connect her establishment in Rome to her remote origins. Thus, as light as a feather, from palazzos to verandas, and from piazzas to movies of the ‘60s, Barbara flutters along, shedding what she feels is superfluous, along the way. Sometimes entire blocks are obliterated, churches seem to vanish into thin air and even historic accuracy seems as some point, to lose importance…. An experienced traveler, fully conversant with the art of getting rid of unnecessary burdens in her own, so very special, unmistakably feminine and romantic way, something like picking up the most beautiful Mediterranean flowers, before putting them in a vase to share the composition with roses and… artichokes alike!" Maria Ioannides, Review in Vakchikon Magazine "In her new travel book, Barbara Athanassiadis lives, breathes, takes delight in, discovers and guides us with a personal and insightful look of Rome, the Eternal City. She deciphers the unique lifestyle of the Romans, easily juggling between their glorious past and their bright present. She takes her readers on transcendent strolls, revealing precious and little-known secrets and inspiring all, even the most unrepentant lovers of Rome, to rediscover it once more." Theodore Gregoriadis, Review in Passport Magazine
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Living Divines and Christian Workers of All Demonminations in Europe and America written by Johann Jakob Herzog and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Characters in the Last Judgement by Michelangelo written by Edolo Masci and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I papi Storia e segreti Da san Pietro a papa Francesco written by Claudio Rendina and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Popes written by Claudio Rendina and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Popes shows the human aspects of the vicar of Christ while reassessing the myths surrounding the person. Theological evaluations are avoided to give readers a more realistic view of these men and the part they played in the shaping of history."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Great Popes Through History written by Frank J. Coppa and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other references that cover all the popes, or the papacy in general with only examples from various popes, the two-volume encyclopedia presents longer and more detailed articles about those deemed to have most influenced the development of the church and the course of history. The arrangement is by period: early from Peter through Pelagius (590), medieval from Gregory I through Boniface VIII (1303), Renaissance and Reformation from Benedict XI through Pius IV (1565), early modern from Pius V through Clement XIV (1774), and modern from Pius VI through John Paul II. The two volumes are paged and indexed together. Bibliographies are entry specific. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Papi in Posa written by Aa.Vv. and published by Gangemi Editore Spa. This book was released on 2013-09-21T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition entitled “Papi in Posa,” i.e., “Papal Portraiture,” with the highly refined and historically significant Braschi Palace – home of the Museum of Rome – in 2004, and now in Washington, The John Paul II Center, is not offered only as an excellent exposition of masterpieces from major international museums – such as the Vatican Museums – and prestigious private collections, but stands out in particular because it is one of the most important expositions of portrait painting ever because of both the outstanding quality and the considerable number of paintings and sculptures offered – executed by Europe's leading artists from the last five centuries – and the great spiritual and social significance of the personages portrayed: the greatest Pontiffs who from the 16th century to the present have sat in the Chair of Saint Peter. It is suggestive to observe, as we scan the unique artistic itinerary offered by the curators of the exhibition, how through the succession of historical periods and particularly by virtue of the esthetic verve and inner sensitivity of the artists, the description of the human person was oriented, with extreme plastic ductility and acuity in their perception of their subjects' physiognomy, to represent not only the body lines of the subject being depicted but, in particular, the most intimate traits of the heart, the lively mobility of their thought, the innermost lines of the subject's character, in an intense dialogue of chiaroscuro observations from which the characterizing notes of complex personages are evinced – persons who appear completely clear and evident only to those who are capable of sublimating their outward appearance into an acute observation. From this prestigious gallery of portraits it emerges unmistakably how the anthropocentric path of human thought has manifestly reverberated within the bounds of the figurative arts through a progressive contextualization, which sees the subject represented unbound through a metatemporal aura of rarefied abstraction and placed, naturalistically, in a precise and well defined spatiotemporal sphere. At the same time, we witness a gradual definition of the personage portrayed as the bearer of a clear personal connotation – the self and the identity, which seem to be invisible and thus impossible to represent – no longer, hortatively, as an idealized and metaphoric emblem of absolute values in deference to a markedly ethical and pedagogical conception. The exhibited works, which rightfully range themselves among the most outstanding expressions of portraiture, reveal a deep spiritual harmony evocative of beauty and unleash a lively dialogue with the onlooker based on a real and inherent economy of the act of viewing, albeit freed from the exercise of a psychologism oriented toward uncontrollable wanderings. The reception of the meaning of the formal systems – thoughtful poses and attitudes – involves, to be sure, the active presence of the spectator in a sort of visual dialogue with the portrait that is not considered exclusively as a fixed commemorative system but rather as an interactive structure. In the perspective of the reception, the observer becomes a fundamental element for the construction of the meaning of the image that, from this very private perspective, undergoes obvious momentous transformations. Observer and image thus become integral parts of a fascinating system of visual exchange not unlike the mechanisms of verbal dialogue: both members of the “pair” take on contemporaneously the dual role of subject/object, restructuring the complex relational web established in a rapport between an “I” and a “you.” Beyond the temporal contingencies, each portrait is recounted and seduces us through the universal language of fame: this incarnates, deeply, the artist's attempt to describe the personality of the subjects portrayed, consigning the multiform essence of their nature to one attitude or to a single expression by resorting to a refined psychological introspection in an attempt to render visually the subject's inner world. It is owing to the above considerations that, while I applaud the felicitous initiative of giving life to such a culturally transcendent exhibition, I would wish that all those who will have the pleasure of visiting it or at least of perusing the pages of this catalogue will be able to perceive the portraits of the individual popes not as so many freestanding elements, but rather as integrated parts of a related set of men who, albeit struggling with the many and varied anxieties of everyday life, endeavored to serve Christ among their brothers, each one with a clear perception of himself as servo servorum Dei – the servant of God's servants! Through looks, attitudes and symbols committed by the artist in a well-constructed iconographic code to the pictorial or sculptural page, the discerning observer cannot help but grasp a veiled spiritual harmony that reflects the profound mystery of faith and propagates an echo of the ineffable beauty of God, revealing how, through art, man – pulled between the eternal and the transient – strives to draw close to his Creator. Francesco Cardinal Marchisano Vicar General of the Pope for the State of Vatican City
