Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter’s

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On this dramatic journey through non secular and creative history, R. A. Scotti traces the defining event of a wonderful epoch: the building of St. Peter?s Basilica. Begun by the ferociously ambitious Pope Julius II in 1506, the endeavor would span two tumultuous centuries, challenge the best Renaissance masters?Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante?and enrage Martin Luther. By the point it used to be completed, Shakespeare had written all of his plays, the Mayflower had reached Plymouth?and Rome had risen with its astounding basilica to grow to be Europe?s holy metropolis. A blinding portrait of human fulfillment and excess, Basilica is a triumph of historical writing.

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