The millennial rites of the Church have a charm that it is difficult to resist. Above all that of the Conclavethe choice of the new pope made by men, the cardinals, but according to the church inspired by the Holy Spirit. Mystical operation that takes place in one of the most beautiful places in the world. The Sistine Chapel, frescoed by Michelangelo, welcomes the cardinals who are under 80 years old and who have the right to vote to elect the successor on the throne of Peter, in this case the 267th. It is unlikely that this mysterious ritual, which is made behind closed doors, did not inspire the pens of the writers and the curiosity of the historians.
The novels within the conclave
Just enter any library and ask which are the most requested books to have at least one certainty: Conclave by Robert Harris. The book from which it was the film awarded with the Oscar for the non -original screenplay is all inside the rooms of the Sistine and of the Santa Marta house where the isolated cardinals live on the days of the conclave. The way is not that story, but that of the Supense with social and geopolitical implications.
The last conclave by Glenn Cooper goes further. No smoke from the chimney and the doubt that something has happened to the purple closed in the Sistine. The doors open and it turns out that the cardinals closed in conclave have disappeared. It will be discovered that there is a dark plan against the church.
Taking a few steps back in the impossible years not to remember Angels and demons by Dan Brownthe first book of Professor Langdon’s series rediscovered after the worldwide success of the second, The Da Vinci codeand became a film with Tom Hanks and Ewan Mc Gregor as Camerlengo. In that case there was a conspiracy of the Illuminati who led to death in series of some cardinals.
The conclave by Fabrizio Battistelli It is a yellow and starts from a very long conclave, the one that saw the election of Benedict XIV, the Bolognese cardinal Prospero Lambertini, Pope since 1740. To investigate Riziero di Pietracuta, a young provincial gentleman, called to Rome by his brother Monsignor.
Roberto Pazzi has published Conclave In 2001. Here too a decision that does not arrive and died of purple. The cardinals have lost the common thread of the faith and often on the sacred the grotesque wins, in short: so much theater.
The conclave of historians
The conclave and the election of the Pope by Alberto Melloni It is the book necessary to know the history of the conclaves, but also of the papacy and the Church. Professor Melloni is an ordinary of the history of Christianity at the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia and one of the top experts on the topic. In this essay, years of the history of the Church are told and analyzed through one of its fundamental rites: certain liturgy, but also a lot of policy. There is also the conclave of the same author. History of the Pope’s election published by Il Mulino with the analysis of the last elections between power games and personal sympathies.
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani and Maria Antonietta Visceglia are the authors of The conclave. Continuity and changes from the Middle Ages to today. Also in this case two university teachers tell the story and the evolution of the ritual of the election of the new pontiff.
Habemus Papam. Secrets and mysteries of the ten conclaves who made history by Yves Chiron The day comes out on which the conclave for the election of the successor of Pope Francis begins. They range from the election of Gregory X, which lasted almost three years (1268-1271), to the conclave that led to the Western schism (1378), from the appointment of Cardinal Borgia to the proclamation in 2013 of Pope Bergoglio.
The rules to elect the next Pope concluded: updated with the latest rules by Javier MartÃnez-Brocal and Father Jose de Jesus Aguilar It collects updates and rules wanted by the last popes. To be prepared for every surprise he can leave the Sistine Chapel.
Source: Vanity Fair
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