David I. Kertzer

The Pope Who Would Be King (eBook, ePUB)

The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Days after the assassination of his prime minister in the middle of Rome in November 1848, Pope Pius IX found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. The wave of revolution that had swept through Europe now seemed poised to put an end to the popes' thousand-year reign over the Papal States, if not indeed to the papacy itself. Disguising himself as a simple parish priest, Pius escaped through a back door. Climbing inside the Bavarian ambassador's carriage, he embarked on a journey into a fateful exile. Only two years earlier Pius's election had triggered a wave of optimism across Italy. After the repressive reign of the dour Pope Gregory XVI, Italians saw the youthful, benevolent new pope as the man who would at last bring the Papal States into modern times and help create a new, unified Italian nation. But Pius found himself caught between a desire to please his subjects and a fear-stoked by the cardinals-that heeding the people's pleas would destroy the church. The resulting drama-with a colorful cast of characters, from Louis Napoleon and his rabble-rousing cousin Charles Bonaparte to Garibaldi, Tocqueville, and Metternich-was rife with treachery, tragedy, and international power politics. David Kertzer is one of the world's foremost experts on the history of Italy and the Vatican, and has a rare ability to bring history vividly to life. With a combination of gripping, cinematic storytelling, and keen historical analysis rooted in an unprecedented richness of archival sources, The Pope Who Would Be King sheds fascinating new light on the end of rule by divine right in the west and the emergence of modern Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192562500
• Artikelnr.: 53007169

Autorenporträt

David I. Kertzer is the Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University, where he served as provost from 2006 to 2011. He is the author of twelve books, including The Pope and Mussolini, also published by OUP and winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for biography; The Popes Against the Jews, a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize; and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997. He has twice been awarded the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best book on Italian history, and in 2005 was elected to membership in the American Association of Arts and Sciences. He and his wife, Susan, live in Providence, Rhode Island, and Harpswell, Maine.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part 1: The Beloved
1: The Conclave
2: The Fox and the Crow
3: An Impossible Dilemma
4: Papal Magic
5: The Tide Turns
6: Fending Off Disaster
7: The Assassination
8: The Escape
Part II: The Reviled
9: The Reactionary Turn
10: Revolution
11: Pressuring the Pope
12: The Friendly Army
13: The French Attack
14: Negotiating in Bad Faith
15: Battling For Rome
16: The Conquest
17: The Occupation
Part III: The Feared
18: Applying the Brakes
19: Louis Napoleon and The Pope
20: The Unpopular Pope
21: "Those Wicked Enemies of God"
22: Returning to Rome
Epilogue
Notes
Index