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Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's | 
 enlarge | Author: R. A. Scotti
Publisher: Viking Adult
Category: Book
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 176758
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.4
Dewey Decimal Number: 726.50945634
ASIN: B000OFOIWW
Publication Date: June 8, 2006
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Condition: hardback with dust jacket,no marks
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Out of the clash of genius and the caprice of popes came the most glorious monument of the Renaissance
It was the splendor and the scandal of the age. In 1506, the ferociously ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the most sacred shrine in Europe the millenniumold St. Peter s Basilica built by the Emperor Constantine over the apostle s grave to build a better basilica. Construction of the new St. Peter s spanned two centuries, embroiled twenty-seven popes, and consumed the genius of the greatest artists of the age Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael, and Bernini. As the basilica rose, modern Rome rose with it as glorious as the city of the Caesars. But the cost was unimaginable. The new basilica provoked the Protestant Reformation, dividing the Christian world for all time. In this swift, colorful narrative, R. A. Scotti brings to life the artists and the popes, the politics and the passions behind this audacious enterprise. Gothic cathedrals reach up to heaven, but the basilica brings heaven to earth, and the new St. Peter s was the defining event of the high Renaissance. In the tradition of Brunelleschi s Dome, Scotti turns sacred architecture into a spellbinding human epic of enormous daring, petty jealousy, and staggering genius.
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 basilica August 5, 2008
Jose Villela (Flower Mound, TX)
Excelent reading for all those interested in the Italian High reinassance, reads like a novel.
 Disappointing August 4, 2008
G. Massa (NYC)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am very disappointed in the quality of research and of the prose.
I found it almost impossible to keep myself engaged.
For what it is worth June 27, 2008
Catholic priest (New Jersey, USA)
As long as you don't approach the book expecting a definitive summary of 150 years of church history, it's an entertaining and fascinating read. I enjoyed the personal portraits of the characters in the book. It's the first book I read in Kindle, and I suspect I might have enjoyed the printed diagrams of the basilica more than the digital version, which I found difficult to read and impossible to enlarge.
A real page turner April 27, 2008
Joseph Duffy (Philly)
This book was more than I had hoped for, and it made a very easy read. I couldn't put it down and hated for it to end. I will buy more books from this author.
 Basilica April 5, 2008
gene spitter (Yountville, Ca.)
I am disappointed in this book. The author's scattershot presentation of a subject that should be fascinating leaves this reader longing for either a scholarly approach or a personal one. This book tries to mix the two.
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