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The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books

Book from Project Gutenberg: The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books · I. Honourable women not a few: Rome in the fourth century. The palace on the Aventine. Melania. The society of Marcella. Paula. The mother house -- II. The popes who made the papacy: Gregory the Great. The monk Hildebrand. The Pope Gregory VII. Innocent III -- III. Lo popolo, and the tribune of the people: Rome in the fourteenth century. The deliverer. The buono stato. Decline and fall. The soldier of fortune. The end of the tragedy -- IV. The popes who made the city: Martin V; Eugenius IV; Nicolas V. Calixtus III; Pius II; Paul II; Sixtus IV. Julius II; Leo X.

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