David I. Kertzer. (2018). The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe. Random House Publishing Group.

David I. Kertzer. 2018. The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe. Random House Publishing Group.

David I. Kertzer, The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe. Random House Publishing Group, 2018.

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   • bioText: David I. Kertzer is the Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and professor of anthropology and Italian studies at Brown University, where he served as provost from 2006 to 2011. He is the author of twelve books, including The Pope and Mussolini, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for biography and the American Historical Association Prize for best book on Italian history; The Popes Against the Jews, a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize; and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997. He has twice been awarded the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best book on Italian history and in 2005 was elected to membership in the American Association of Arts and Sciences. He and his wife, Susan, live in Providence, Rhode Island, and Harpswell, Maine.
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political power and signaled the birth of modern Europe.
“[David I.] Kertzer’s brilliant treatment of the crisis in the papacy between 1846 and 1850 reads like a thriller. All the characters, from the poor of Rome to the king of Naples, stand out with a vividness that testifies to his mastery of prose.”—Jonathan Steinberg, The New York Review of Books
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND THE SEATTLE TIMES
Only two years after Pope Pius IX’s election in 1846 had triggered great popular enthusiasm across Italy, the pope found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. The revolutions that swept through Europe and shook Rome threatened to end the popes’ thousand-year reign over the Papal States, if not the papacy itself. The resulting drama—with a colorful cast of characters, from Louis Napoleon and his rabble-rousing cousin Charles Bonaparte to Garibaldi, Tocqueville, and Metternich—was rife with treachery, tragedy, and international power politics. David Kertzer, one of the world’s foremost experts on the history of Italy and the Vatican, brings this pivotal moment vividly to life. 
Praise for The Pope Who Would Be King
“Engaging, intelligent, and revealing . . . essential reading for those seeking to understand the perennial human forces that shape both power and faith.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America
“Subtle and brilliantly told.”—Christopher Clark, London Review of Books
“Richly rewarding . . . church history at its most fascinating.”—The Christian Science Monitor
“Required, and riveting, reading that shares many of the qualities of Kertzer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece: an exceptionally deep archival and scholarly foundation, and a rare capacity to tell the story of a critical chapter in European history with novelistic verve.”—Kevin Madigan, author of Medieval Christianity
“A remarkable achievement—both a page-turner and a major contribution to scholarship accomplished with outstanding clarity and economy. Kertzer gives this story a notable degree of freshness, and brings out vividly the determination, passions, blood, and gore of this dramatic moment in European history.”—John Davis, editor, Journal of Modern Italian Studies

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     February 15, 2018
     A bulky but readable history of the last leader of the Papal States.Pio Nono, or Pius IX, was one of the architects of the modern Catholic Church, the pontiff who forged the doctrine of papal infallibility while making some decidedly fallible choices on the front of worldly politics. According to Pulitzer Prize winner Kertzer (Social Science/Brown Univ.; The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe, 2014, etc.), the pope had reasonably humane inclinations but not much sense of the power politics of the day. He found himself in an uncomfortable alliance with France while facing off against the nationalist forces that, inspired by Garibaldi's red shirts, would forge a unified country out of a collection of rival city-states and principalities. One legacy of Pius IX's time is the tiny enclave of Vatican City, surrounded by an Italy that, nominally Catholic, does not suffer much political interference from it. That tradition reflects on the fraught relationship with Italy's first king, Victor Emmanuel, who died early in his reign. As Kertzer writes, "the Catholic press made much of this evidence of divine punishment, although it might have made more of it had the elderly Pius IX not died four weeks later." Though broadly criticized in his time, the pope, a hero of conservatives today, was elevated to sainthood during John Paul's papacy. The cardinal who guided Pius IX in political matters has not fared so well, Kertzer notes; while attempting to preserve the pope's 1,000-year-old kingdom, he enriched himself and his family while allegedly maintaining a series of mistresses. In the end, writes the author, the old papacy was a victim of the Enlightenment, which had further implications when the Second Vatican Council removed some of the last of its medieval vestiges.A touch too long but a pleasingly encompassing view of the hapless papal reign that inspired Kertzer's early book The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortaro (1997).

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     Kertzer, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Pope Pius XI (The Pope and Mussolini), expertly captures the tension of a deeply devout population, loyal to their church but receptive to the stirrings of both liberalism and nationalism. When Giovanni Mastai Meretti was unexpectedly elected pope in 1846, throngs of adoring Romans heralded his rise, convinced that the humble and fair-minded archbishop of Spoleto would loosen the screws of theocracy in the Papal States and usher in a golden era for Italy. The first months of Pius IX’s rule seemed to bear out this vision, but before long political upheaval forced him to flee—and after his return, chastened and mistrustful of democracy, “he pope’s embrace of a medieval vision of society could not have been clearer.” At the end of his papacy, Pius IX presided over “the death throes of the popes’ thousand-year kingdom... the death of a doctrine of faith that had a huge impact on the course of Western civilization.” From the arch-conservative secretary of state of the Papal States, Giacomo Antonelli (who oversaw daily affairs), to the avatar of Italian independence, Giuseppe Mazzini (a leading dissident fighting against clerical rule and for a united Italy), Kertzer brings to life a cast of characters whose divergent voices arose from a new Europe. A consummate storyteller, Kertzer blends academic rigor with fluid, energetic prose, and the result will satisfy specialists while entertaining those who might otherwise expect to be bored stiff by a volume of church history.

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     Starred review from February 1, 2018
     Defying Prince Metternich's declaration that a liberal pope was a conceptual impossibility, Pius IX begins his exceptionally long nineteenth-century pontifical reign as a progressive ruler over Rome and the Papal Statesgranting amnesty to political prisoners, constructing rural railroads, replacing clerics with qualified laymen in governmental posts, even enshrining the people's rights in a new constitution. But in this probing chronicle, Kertzer recounts how Pius IX ineluctably comes to confirm, not defy, Metternich's perspective on papal liberality. Readers witness the transformation of Pius IX whendismayed that his reforms have stoked rather than satisfied the people's appetite for emancipationhe begins to shield the church's temporal powers from further challenge. Kertzer unfolds the tense drama when the newly reactionary pope faces such popular hostility that he furtively flees Rome after hearing the cheers of crowds lauding the assassin who has murdered his chief administrator. The drama intensifies when the pope later reenters Rome backed by French and Austrian forces, crushing the hopes of both Italian nationalists and French republicans as he restores the church's theocratic prerogatives. Diverse personalities, regimes, and philosophies come into focus as formative influences on the unpredictable evolution of church, city, nation, and continent. Essential reading for students of modern European history.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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     Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Kertzer (Dupee Univ. Professor of Social Science, Brown Univ.) has written several books about the papacy, including The Pope and Mussolini. His new work focuses on Pope Pius IX (1792-1878), who led during a time of major transition and experienced a period of exile from Rome. While this deals with Pius IX and his time as Pope, it has a broader emphasis on the transition toward modern Europe that occurred during his reign. When Pius IX first became Pope, he was a key leader both in religion and in politics in the Papal States. During his final years, the Pope was still a religious leader, but his political authority did not extend beyond papal grounds. After detailing his popularity and eventual exile, Kertzer recounts how Pius guided his key Catholic leaders, after they had returned to Rome, to reinstate full papal rule there and punish those who turned against him. VERDICT Readers interested in religious history or specifically Catholic religious history, will find this book to be an excellent resource.--John Jaeger, Johnson Univ.

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     November 15, 2017
     

     Pulitzer Prize winner for The Pope and Mussolini, Brown professor Kertzer, an expert on the Vatican and modern Italian history, turns to Pope Pius IX, elected in 1846 and the longest-reigning pope ever. At first, Pius IX sought to counter anger at the Church's corruption with liberalizing tendencies, but revolution throughout Europe compelled him to defend the Church's rights. A crucial, game-changing time in European history.

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“[David I.] Kertzer’s brilliant treatment of the crisis in the papacy between 1846 and 1850 reads like a thriller. All the characters, from the poor of Rome to the king of Naples, stand out with a vividness that testifies to his mastery of prose.”—Jonathan Steinberg, The New York Review of Books
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND THE SEATTLE TIMES
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