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Author Kertzer, David I., 1948-

Title Prisoner of the Vatican : the popes' secret plot to capture Rome from the new Italian state / David I. Kertzer.

Publication Info. Old Saybrook, Ct. : Tantor Media, cp2004.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  CDBOOK 945.63 KER    Check Shelf
Description 11 audio discs (14 hrs.) ; digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Unabridged.
Contents Introduction: Italy's Birth and Near Demise -- Destroying the Papal States -- The Pope Becomes Infallible -- The Last Days of Papal Rome -- Conquering the Holy City -- The Leonine City -- The Reluctant King -- Pius IX in Exile Again? -- The Papal Martyr -- Anticlericalism in Rome -- Two Deaths -- Picking a New Pope -- Keeping the Bishops in Line -- The Pope's Body -- Rumors of a French Conspiracy -- Preparing for Exile -- Hopes Dashed -- The Bishops' Lament -- Fears of a European War -- Giordano Bruno's Revenge -- The Pope's Secret Plan -- Epilogue: Italy and the Pope.
Performer Narrated by Alan Sklar.
Note GMD: sound recording.
Subject Pius IX, Pope, 1792-1878.
Leo XIII, Pope, 1810-1903.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882.
Roman question.
Popes -- Temporal power.
Church and state -- Italy.
Rome (Italy) -- Annexation to Italy, 1870.
Rome (Italy) -- History -- 1870-1945.
ISBN 1400131421
1400101425
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