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Bartolomeo Platina (1421-1481), historian, political theorist, and author of a best-selling cookbook, began life as a mercenary soldier and ended it as the head

An irreverent expose of the Bishops of Rome from St. Peter to the present day.

When Bartolomeo Sacchi ('Platina', 1421-1481) wrote his Vitae pontificum (Lives of the Popes) and presented it to Pope Sixtus IV in 1475, he surely could not ha

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Tracing the history of the papacy from ancient times to the present day, this illuminating study features detailed profiles of each pope, describing the events