[Bryn-gwlad] New topic: Want to pick the brain of Bryn Gwlad

[Stefan li Rous]

On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:43 AM, Lucia Digioia wrote:

> The shady side? Kings, Dukes and Earls? Forget those pikers...  
> Let's go straight to the top--allow me to recommend "The Bad  
> Popes," by E. R. Chamberlin.
>
> The pope who slept with his sister, the pope who dragged the corpse  
> of his predecessor to trial, the pope who was killed in bed with  
> his mistress (by the husband, natch), the pope who watched  
> criminals being hunted for sport, you name it!  Unusual in that it  
> covers time periods from the Donation of Constantine to the  
> Renaissance.
>
> Similar in style, though slightly more limited in period, is the  
> section on Renaissance Popes in "The March of Folly," by famed  
> historian Barbara Tuchman (the section titled The British Lose  
> America, while OOP by 170 years, is also fascinating).

I've got that book around here some where.  I seem to remember as  
well one of the Popes that was sleeping with his daughter. One of the  
Borgia? I'm not sure how many of the Popes highlighted in this book  
are actual from the 16th century though, which was Damiana's original  
inquiry.

Stefan
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