Rome: A Priest's Manuscript on the Index
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The priest of the Lourdes book goes to Rome with a manuscript on the Index, believing that the Church can be persuaded to stand with the poor, and spends three months in antechambers learning what the Vatican is. Zola went there himself in 1894 and asked for an audience with Leo XIII, which was refused. The city is drawn as an archaeology of power, and the audience with the Pope is the coldest scene he ever wrote. Fifty-seven plates, from Mantegna to Canaletto and Guardi, trace the cities of stone and water where the novel's power is enacted.
The priest of the Lourdes book goes to Rome with a manuscript on the Index, believing that the Church can be persuaded to stand with the poor, and spends three months in antechambers learning what the Vatican is. Zola went there himself in 1894 and asked for an audience with Leo XIII, which was r...
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Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist born in Paris and raised in Aix-en-Provence. He wrote the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle, intervened in the Dreyfus affair with the open letter J'accuse, was convicted of libel and fled to England, and died of carbon monoxide poisoning in circumstances still disputed. His works include His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Germinal, L'Assommoir, and Money.
Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist born in Paris and raised in Aix-en-Provence. He wrote the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle, intervened in the Dreyfus affair with the open letter J'accuse, was convicted of libel and fled to England, and died of carbon monoxide poisoning in circumst...
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