The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe

512 Pages·2018·20.12 MB·English

by  David I. Kertzer

Copyright © 2018 by David I. Kertzer
Maps copyright © 2018 by Laura Hartman Maestro
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NAMES: Kertzer, David I., author.
TITLE: The pope who would be king : the exile of Pius IX and the emergence of modern Europe / David I. Kertzer.
DESCRIPTION: New York : Random House, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
IDENTIFIERS: LCCN 2017038825 | ISBN 9780812989915 | ISBN 9780812989922 (ebook)
SUBJECTS: LCSH: Pius IX, Pope, 1792–1878. | Europe—Church history—19th century. | Europe—Politics and
government—1848–1871.
CLASSIFICATION: LCC BX1373 .K47 2018 | DDC 282.092—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/
2017038825
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
List of Illustrations
Maps
Cast of Characters
Prologue
Part One: The Beloved
Chapter 1: The Conclave
Chapter 2: The Fox and the Crow
Chapter 3: An Impossible Dilemma
Chapter 4: Papal Magic
Chapter 5: The Tide Turns
Chapter 6: Fending Off Disaster
Chapter 7: The Assassination
Chapter 8: The Escape
Part Two: The Reviled
Chapter 9: The Reactionary Turn
Chapter 10: Revolution
Chapter 11: Pressuring the Pope
Chapter 12: The Friendly Army
Chapter 13: The French Attack
Chapter 14: Negotiating in Bad Faith
Chapter 15: Battling for Rome
Chapter 16: The Conquest
Chapter 17: The Occupation
Part Three: The Feared
Chapter 18: Applying the Brakes
Chapter 19: Louis Napoleon and the Pope
Chapter 20: The Unpopular Pope
Chapter 21: “Those Wicked Enemies of God”
Chapter 22: Returning to Rome
Epilogue
Dedication
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes
References
Illustration Credits
By David I. Kertzer
About the Author
Let lips of iron and tongues of slaves
Fit welcome give thee; for her part,
Rome, frowning o’er her new-made graves,
Shall curse thee from her heart!
—EXCERPTED FROM JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, “TO PIUS IX,” 1849
1. Prince Klemens von Metternich
2. Pope Pius IX
3. Pellegrino Rossi
4. Giuseppe Mazzini
5. The popular hero Ciceruacchio
6. Charles Bonaparte
7. Giacomo Antonelli
8. Margaret Fuller
9. Pius IX
10. King Charles Albert of Sardinia
11. Terenzio Mamiani
12. Antonio Rosmini
13. The death of Pellegrino Rossi
14. Gaeta
15. Ferdinand II, King of the Two Sicilies
16. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
17. Pietro Sterbini
18. Ciceruacchio speaks to the people
19. Felix Schwarzenberg
20. Moritz Esterházy
21. The abdication of King Charles Albert
22. Triumvirate of the Roman Republic: Carlo Armellini, Giuseppe Mazzini, and
Aurelio Saffi
23. Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, French foreign minister
24. Giuseppe Garibaldi
25. Garibaldi and his comrade-in-arms, Andrea Aguyar
26. General Charles Oudinot
27. Ferdinand de Lesseps
28. Pius IX blesses Spanish troops at Gaeta, May 26, 1849
29. Alexis de Tocqueville
30. The bombardment of Rome
31. French troops fire on Rome’s wall, June 20, 1849
32. French soldiers
33. Garibaldi with his dying wife, Anita
34. The arrest of the monk Ugo Bassi
35. General Achille Baraguey d’Hilliers
36. The patriot princess Cristina Belgiojoso