The Secret Archives of the Vatican Author:Luisa Ambrosini with Mary Willis "This book is an attempt to give readers some of the treasure that humanity-not only the Church, but all mankind-possesses in the Secret Archives of the Vatican, and to tell a little of how this vast collection of knowledge came into being, how the words of Saint Peter and Saint Paul grew into twenty-five miles of shelved documents. My ... more »Plan has been to follow the story of the Archives...and to give a glimpse of what they contain, or may have contained, in the light of the times that produced them."« less