The Pope Who Would Be King-David I. Kertzer

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The Pope Who Would Be King


By David I. Kertzer

Narrated by Will Damron

Published by Random House Audio in 2018

English, 13 hours 44 minutes, Unabridged

MP3 64 kbps, 377.88 MB, 17 file(s)



The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Pope and Mussolini takes on a pivotal, untold story: the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political power and signaled the birth of modern Europe.

Days after his prime minister was assassinated 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 end the popes' thousand-year reign over the Papal States, if not 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

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