God bless Italy
Christopher Clark: Rome, Vienna, 1848, 10 May 2018
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe
by David I. Kertzer.
Oxford, 474 pp., £25, May 2018,978 0 19 882749 8 Show More
by David I. Kertzer.
Oxford, 474 pp., £25, May 2018,
“... On the evening of 24 November 1848, Pope Pius IX fled from the city of Rome. At 5 p.m., he took off his Moroccan silk slippers with crosses embroidered on their uppers, put aside the red velvet papal cap and dressed himself in the black cassock and broad-brimmed hat of a country priest ... ”
