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The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe
The Pope Who Would Be King The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe Author:David I. Kertzer Only two years after Pope Pius IX’s election in 1846 had triggered great popular enthusiasm across Italy, the pope found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. The revolutions that swept through Europe and shook Romein 1848 threatened to end the popes’ thousand-year reign over the Papal States, if not the papacy itself. ... more »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.« less