Eyewitness to Old St Peter's: Maffeo Vegio's 'Remembering the Ancient History of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, ' with Translation and a Digital Recon
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Old St Peter's Basilica in Rome stood for over eleven centuries until it was demolished to make room for today's church on the same Vatican site. Its last eyewitness, Maffeo Vegio, explained to the Roman hierarchy how revival of the papacy, whose prestige after the exile to Avignon had been diminished, was inseparable from a renewed awareness of the primacy of Peter's Church. To make his case, Vegio wrote a history founded on credible written and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1108496857
ISBN13:9781108496858
Release Date:August 2019
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:322 Pages
Weight:2.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 8.2" x 10.2"
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