Mistress of the Vatican
Title | Mistress of the Vatican PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Herman |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 006182741X |
Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Catholic Church in Mistress of the Vatican, a scintillating biography of a powerful yet little-known woman whose remarkable story is ripe with secrets, sex, passion, and ambition. For almost four centuries this astonishing story of a woman’s absolute power over the Vatican has been successfully buried—until now.
Mistress of the Vatican
Title | Mistress of the Vatican PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Herman |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2008-08-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0061245550 |
Traces the story of a seventeenth-century mistress who significantly influenced the Catholic church and international policy in Rome during the reign of her lover and brother-in-law, Pope Innocent X.
Mistress of Rome
Title | Mistress of Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Quinn |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2010-04-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101186631 |
The first in an unforgettable historical saga from the New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Diamond Eye. “So gripping, your hands are glued to the book, and so vivid it burns itself into your mind’s eye and stays with you long after you turn the final page.”—Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author First-century Rome: One young woman will hold the fate of an empire in her hands. Thea, a captive from Judaea, is a clever and determined survivor hiding behind a slave’s docile mask. Purchased as a toy for the spoiled heiress Lepida Pollia, Thea evades her mistress’s spite and hones a secret passion for music. But when Thea wins the love of Rome’s newest and most savage gladiator and dares to dream of a better life, the jealous Lepida tears the lovers apart and casts Thea out. Rome offers many ways for the resourceful to survive, and Thea remakes herself as a singer for the Eternal ’City’s glittering aristocrats. As she struggles for success and independence, her nightingale voice attracts a dangerous new admirer: the Emperor himself. But the passions of an all-powerful man come with a heavy price, and Thea finds herself fighting for both her soul and her destiny. Many have tried to destroy the Emperor: a vengeful gladiator, an upright senator, a tormented soldier, a Vestal Virgin. But in the end, the life of Rome’s most powerful man lies in the hands of one woman: the Emperor’s mistress.
The Bad Popes
Title | The Bad Popes PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Russell Chamberlin |
Publisher | Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780880291163 |
The stories of seven popes who ruled at seven different critical periods in the 600 years leading into the Reformation.
The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio
Title | The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio PDF eBook |
Author | Hubert Wolf |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 557 |
Release | 2015-01-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0385351925 |
A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation by the Church’s Inquisition uncovered were the extraordinary secrets of Sant’Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent’s beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations, Maria Luisa began to lead and coerce her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies. She entered into a highly eroticized relationship with a young theologian known as Padre Peters—urging him to dispense upon her, in the privacy and sanctity of the confessional box, what the two of them referred to as the “special blessing.” What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical significance, skillfully brought to light and vividly reconstructed in scholarly detail. Offering a broad historical background on female mystics and the cult of the Virgin Mary, and drawing on written testimony and original documents, Professor Wolf—Germany’s leading scholar of the Catholic Church, and among the very first scholars to be granted access to the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the office of the Inquisition—tells the incredible story of how one woman was able to perpetrate deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Church itself.
The Vatican Princess
Title | The Vatican Princess PDF eBook |
Author | C. W. Gortner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345533976 |
Trade paperback edition includes a reader's guide.
Dark History of the Popes
Title | Dark History of the Popes PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Ralph Lewis |
Publisher | Amber Books Ltd |
Pages | 483 |
Release | 2012-10-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 190869632X |
From corruption to nepotism, from crusade to witch-burning to Inquisition, from popes sanctioning murder to popes being murdered, Dark History of The Popes explores more than 1000 years of sinister deeds surrounding the papacy.