The Nuns of Sant' Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal

ISBN-13: 9780198732198 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 496 str.

Hubert Wolf

Opis

The true story of a scandal of epic proportions at the Roman convent of Sant'Ambrogio in the late 1850s. Discovered recently in a Vatican archive by one of the world's leading papal historians, it is a tale of deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Catholic Church.

Recenzje

a masterly telling of a 19th-century scandalanalysed in a consummate way by Hubert Wolf Metro, Iain Pears

O autorze

Hubert Wolf is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Muenster in Germany, and has been awarded a number or prizes, including the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Communicator Prize, and the Gutenberg Prize. An internationally renowned scholar of the history of the papacy, his other books include Pope and Devil: The Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich.