Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's | 
 enlarge | Author: R. A. Scotti
Publisher: Viking
Category: EBooks
List Price: $15.00
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 2140
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 720
ASIN: B000OZ0NNA
Publication Date: March 28, 2007
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Product Description
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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 great! November 9, 2008
W. Miller (Salt Lake City, UT USA)
Great service. It came fast and in perfect shape. Would definitely buy from this buyer again.
 Interesting study of the personalities September 15, 2008
Sean P. Palmer (Nw York, NY)
Others have pointed out the errors in this book better than I could ... I don't much about building materials and achitecture. br / br /I enjoyed reading this book because of the number of larger than life personalities involved in the construction of St. Peter's: from popes like Julius III and the Medici Popes to Raphael, Michelangelo and the other artists/architects involved in the massive project. br /
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. br /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.
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