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Scotti, R. A.
Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
New York Viking; Penguin 2006 0670037761 / 9780670037766 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Good
xx, 299 pp., illus., biblio., index; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Dust jacket with a creased front cover. Another copy available. "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. / R. A. Scotti is the author of two previous works of nonfiction, including Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938, and four novels." - Publisher.
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Scotti, R. A.
Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
New York Viking; Penguin 2006 0670037761 / 9780670037766 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
xx, 299 pp., illus., biblio., index; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge. Dust jacket, with a creased front flap, protected in a mylar book cover. "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. / R. A. Scotti is the author of two previous works of nonfiction, including Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938, and four novels." - Publisher.
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Scotti, R. A.
Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
Harmondsworth Plume Books; Penguin 2007 0452288606 / 9780452288607 Reprint Trade Paperback Very Good
xx, 315 pp., illus., biblio., index; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "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. / R. A. Scotti is the author of two previous works of nonfiction, including Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938, and four novels." - Publisher.
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Scotti, R. A.
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
Boston Little, Brown and Company 2003 0316739111 / 9780316739115 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
viii, 279 pp., illus., maps, biblio., index; 25 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "It was the Perfect Storm, but instead of raging far out in the Atlantic, the Great Hurricane of 1938 left a wake of death and destruction across seven states. Sudden Sea re-creates that terrifying September day in gripping detail, focusing on the intense human drama that unfolded as an unlikely alignment of meteorological conditions conspired to bring to New England a tropical cyclone so devastating that it would require the entire coastline of the Northeast to be remapped. Drawing upon newspaper accounts, the personal testimony of survivors, and archival footage, R. A. Scotti follows the trajectory of that awful wind - and recovers for posterity the lost stories of those whose lives, families, and communities were indelibly changed. / R. A. Scotti, a former journalist on the Providence Journal-Bulletin and Newark Star-Ledger, is the author of five novels. A native Rhode Islander, Scotti grew up hearing stories of 1938, including one of an aunt who returned from work at the phone company in a rowboat and another about her grandmother's best friend, who stepped out onto the porch of her house and was never seen again. She summers at Narragansett Pier, Weekapaug, and Jamestown and lives the rest of the year in New York City." - Publisher.
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