The secrets of a Vatican cardinal : Celso Costantini's wartime diaries, 1938-1947 / / edited by Bruno Fabio Pighin ; translated by Laurence B. Mussio

• Autore: Costantini Celso
• Pubblicazione: Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (517 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.548245092
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945 - Religious aspects - Catholic Church; Cardinals - Italy
• Soggetto geografico: Italy History 1922-1945 Sources
• Persona (resp. second.): PighinBruno Fabio; MussioLaurence B.
• Note generali: Translation of the Italian edition published as "Diario inedito del Cardinale Celso Costantini. Ai margini della Guerra (1948-1947)."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction Bruno Fabio Pighin -- Chronology of the Life of Celso Costantini (1876-1958) -- Cardinal Celso Costantini : diary, 1938-1947. Author's Preface -- The Year 1938 -- The Year 1939 -- The Year 1940 -- The Year 1941 -- The Year 1942 -- The Year 1943 -- The Year 1944 -- The Year 1945 -- The Year 1946 -- The Year 1947 -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: On 19 April 1940 Celso Costantini prophetically wrote in his diary that if Italy followed Hitler into war, it would be allying itself with the "Anti-Christ." Within weeks, Mussolini's fascist regime plunged Italy into the destructive maelstrom of global military conflict. The ensuing years brought world war, the fall of fascism, occupation, liberation, and the emergence of a new political order. The Secrets of a Vatican Cardinal is an extraordinary and detailed behind-the-scenes account of crucial episodes in Europe's wartime history from a unique vantage point: the Vatican and the Eternal City. Costantini, a close advisor to Pope Pius XII, possessed a perspective few of his contemporaries could match. His diaries offer new insights into the great issues of the time - the Nazi occupation, the fall of Mussolini, the tumultuous end of the Italian monarchy, the birth of republican democracy in Italy, and the emergence of a new international order - while also recounting heartbreaking stories of the suffering, perseverance, and heroism of ordinary people. Less than a century later, with the world's attention gripped by the first papal resignation in six hundred years, The Secrets of a Vatican Cardinal presents a clear-eyed, fascinating, and complex portrait of the Roman Catholic Church's recent history.
• Titolo autorizzato: The secrets of a Vatican cardinal
• ISBN: 0-7735-9006-4; 0-7735-9005-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813512303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II