On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Charles Haynes <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Sidin Vadukut <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > This is the second history of the popes I'm reading in two months. And I
> am
> > utterly not bored.
>
> > Those guys were... dudes.
>

Indeed.

>
> Those guys were ... not all guys. :)
>
> I presume the Borgia popes play a prominent role. Did they include
> Pope Leo VIII who was both a Pope AND and antipope? (Fortunately not
> at the same time or he would have annihilated himself...)
>

Ha ha ha. And of course that most fun period when they had three popes. And
detested all of them.

It is remarkable how little religion there is in a history of the papacy.
And also how Berlusconi-like some of them were.


> -- Charles
>
>

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