Download or read book The Story of My Purity written by Francesco Pacifico and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exuberant tale of a man caught between faith and freedom, from one of Italy's most talented young novelists Thirty years old, growing flabby in a sexless marriage, Piero Rosini has decided to dedicate his life to Jesus. He's renounced the novels and American music that were filling his head with bullshit; he's moved out of his fancy bourgeois neighborhood, which was keeping him from finding spiritual purity and the Lord's truth. Now that he and his wife have settled into an unfinished housing development on the far outskirts of Rome, he'll be able to really concentrate on his job at an ultraconservative Catholic publishing house, editing books that highlight the decadence and degradation of modern society, including one claiming that Pope John Paul II was secretly Jewish. But Piero is suffocating. He worries that The Jewish Pope might be taking things too far. He can't get his beautiful sister-in-law out of his head. Temptations are breaking down his religious resolve. He decides to flee to Paris, which turns out not to be the best way of guarding his purity. With a charismatic narrator as familiar with the finer points of Christian theology as with the floor layout of IKEA and the schedules of European budget airlines, Francesco Pacifico's exuberant novel brings us Europe old and new and the inner workings of a conflicted but always compelling mind. The Story of My Purity is fiction with great humor, intelligence, neuroticism, and vision, from a young writer at the beginning of a tremendous career.
Download or read book History of the Popes written by Ludwig Freiherr von Pastor and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Rome written by Martin Dunford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Rome is the ultimate travel guide to one of the greatest cities on earth. Now in full colour throughout, with dozens of colour photos to illustrate the finest of Rome's beautiful, ancient buildings, iconic landmarks and distinctive neighbourhoods, this guide will show you the best the city has to offer. This guide unearths the hidden side of Rome - ancient, little-visited churches, quirky museums, the best out-of-the-way restaurants and authentic markets, and the hippest, most up-and-coming neighbourhoods. It also has any number of suggestions of things to do with kids, where to indulge in a spot of shopping, how to get to the best out-of-town beaches, with everything located on a number of clear and easy-to-use maps.
Download or read book The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages written by Ludwig Freiherr von Pastor and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cicero Classicism and Popular Culture written by Marshall Fishwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn why Cicero is considered one of the most important individuals in all of Western culture! Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) was a poet, philosopher, writer, scholar, barrister, statesman, patriot, and the linguist who helped make Latin into a universal language. His many influences in rhetoric, politics, literature, and ideas are seen throughout Western civilization. Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture explores the fascinating man behind the eloquence and his monumental effect on language, morality, and popularity of Western culture. One of the leading authorities on popular culture, Dr. Marshall Fishwick discusses the multifaceted man who may be, besides Jesus, the central figure in all of Western civilization. The author recounts his own personal quest of traveling the land and ancient cities of Italy, gleaning insights from people he met along the way who have knowledge about Cicero’s life and times. However, Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture is more than a simple search for the man and his accomplishments, a man whose mere words changed the way people think. This book shows in each of us the roots of our own ideas, beliefs, and culture. Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture discusses: Cicero’s rise to acclaim his affect on the language of popular culture common traits Cicero shared with Thomas Jefferson rhetoric, the art of oratory community two pivotal essays on friendship and old age vision of his reputation the search for peace Marshall McLuhan, Ciceronian Cicero’s Rome Cicero’s ancestral home of Arpinum Julius Caesar, politics, and the influences of Cicero the Roman republic and its downfall America as the new Rome much more! Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture is a startling, entertaining examination of the man who made Western culture what it is today. The book is insightful reading for educators, students, or anyone interested in one of the major forces in popular culture.
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Download or read book The March on Rome written by Giulia Albanese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to reconstruct the violent nature of the March on Rome and to emphasise its significance in demarcating a real break in the country's history and the beginning of the Fascist dictatorship. This aspect of the March has long been obscured: first by the Fascists' celebratory project, and then by the ironic and reductive interpretation of the event put forward by anti-Fascists. This volume focuses on the role and purpose of Fascist political violence from its origins. In doing so, it highlights the conflictual nature of the March by illustrating the violent impact it had on Italian institutions as well as the importance of a debate on this political turning point in Italy and beyond. The volume also examines how the event crucially contributed to the construction of a dictatorial political regime in Italy in the weeks following Mussolini's appointment as head of the government. Originally published in Italian, this book fills a notable gap in current critical discussion surrounding the March in the English language.
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Download or read book To Kill The Pope written by Tad Szulc and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Pope John Paul II: A Biography comes a chillingly authentic conspiracy thriller based on actual, never-before-revealed facts surrounding the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II. “One moment, the white-clad figure, holding on to the iron bar at the back seat of the white Jeep with the left hand, was blessing the faithful in a slow, circular motion of the right hand as the vehicle advanced gently through the human mass filling St. Peter's Square in the Vatican under the azure-blue sky of the May afternoon. The next moment, the figure in white was slumped, seemingly lifeless, in a pool of crimson blood sloshing in the rear of the Jeep...” In May 1981, in the middle of the slow tour among pilgrims on St. Peter's Square, Gregory XVII, the beloved but often controversial French pope, is shot at close range. The would-be assassin is quickly caught and identifies himself as Agca Circlic, a Turk belonging to a terrorist group. But the recovering Gregory XVII—who has both deep faith and a philosophical turn of mind—is not satisfied with Circlic's arrest and sets out to discover who really wants him dead. He arranges to recruit Tim Savage, an American Jesuit and former CIA case officer, who soon discovers that the plot to kill the Pope originated not in the Middle East but very close to home. To Kill the Pope is a fictional treatment of the real-life assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. In the course of researching his acclaimed biography of the Pope, Tad Szulc uncovered the truth about the conspiracy. The fictional format was chosen because, out of deference to his top-level sources, he could not reveal real names or disclose specific details. This information—including actual CIA testimony before United States Senate committees, the Agency's internal reports, French Secret Service involvements, and findings by Italian courts and Interpol—forms the basis for a shocking thriller that sheds new light on a key event in recent history.
Download or read book The Dictionary of Biographical Reference written by Lawrence Barnell Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Great Index of Biographical Reference written by Lawrence Barnett Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
