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Pages: 416
Authors: Thomas F. X. Noble
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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The Republic of St. Peter seeks to reclaim for central Italy an important part of its own history. Noble's thesis is at once original and controversial: that th
St Peter's
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Keith Miller
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-09 - Publisher: Profile Books

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The story of St Peter's begins in the 1st century CE with the Hippodrome of Nero, one of two places where the Apostle Peter may have been crucified. 250 years l
Old Saint Peter's, Rome
Language: en
Pages: 523
Authors: Rosamond McKitterick
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Provides the first full study of the predecessor church of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, from late antique construction to Renaissance destruction.
On the Donation of Constantine
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: Lorenzo Valla
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an oration in which Valla uses new philo
Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
Language: en
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Authors: Rosamond McKitterick
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The remarkable, and permanently influential, papal history known as the Liber pontificalis shaped perceptions and the memory of Rome, the popes, and the many-la