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The Three Cities Trilogy, Rome, Volume 1

Part 5 — Introductory material

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly translation

XIV SUBMISSION—The Vatican by Night—The Papal Anterooms—Some Great Popes—His Holiness's Bed-room—Pierre's Reception—Papal Wrath—Pierre's Appeal—The Pope's Policy—Dogma and Lourdes—Pierre Reprobates his Book

XV A HOUSE OF MOURNING—Lying in State—Mother and Son—Princess and Work-girl—Nani the Jesuit—Rival Cardinals—The Pontiff of Destruction

XVI JUDGMENT—Pierre and Orlando—Italian Rome—Wanted, a Democracy—Italy and France—The Rome of the Anarchists—The Agony of Guilt—A Botticelli—The Papacy Condemned—The Coming Schism—The March of Science—The Destruction of Rome—The Victory of Reason—Justice not Charity—Departure—The March of Civilisation—One Fatherland for All Mankind

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