Fallen order : intrigue, heresy, and scandal in the Rome of Galileo and Caravaggio / by Karen Liebreich
2004, First American Edition. New York : Grove Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 336 pages; Physical desc. : xxxii, 336 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subject: Jose, de Calasanz, Saint (1556-1648) --Piarists --History --17th century --Child sexual abuse by clergy --Europe. Summary: A multifaceted study of seventeenth-century Rome captures the political intrigues, personal rivalries, and Byzantine workings of the Vatican and the Catholic Church in a study of the Piarist Order, an educational order abolished in 1646 because of the sexual abuse of children and the cover-ups and deceptions practiced by the Church. Item #155733
ISBN: 0802117848
Price: €9.95