Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes' Secret Plot to Capture Rome from
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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
Author: David I. Kertzer
Format: Hardback, 357 pages
Published: 2004, Houghton Mifflin, United States
Genre: History: World & General
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