L'autore:
Thomas Cahill is the former director of religious publishing at Doubleday. He and his wife, Susan Cahill, a novelist and anthologist, divide their time between New York and Rome. They have two children, a daughter who is a teacher in Oakland, California, and a son who is a filmmaker in Prague.
Dalla quarta di copertina:
'John had trouble with the papal We and commonly slipped into I and me. He was often engaged in trying to get visitors to stop kneeling in his presence... After trying for his first week in office to eat alone, as protocol had prescribed since the days of Pius V, he... soon widened the circle of dinner guests... He gave out that the best tip he had for weight reduction was to stand next to Cardinal Gaetano Cicognani, by far the largest of the cardinals. "Then I feel that I am as thin as a rail." Catching a glimpse of himself in a full-length mirror, he murmured with a chuckle, "Lord, this man is going to be a disaster on television." Life in the Vatican was beginning to resemble a high-spirited Italian comedy... and these anecdotes and many more like them filtered out to the international press, delighting the world at large but especially Catholics, who wondered why they had been content till now with humourless popes who had made the life of the spirit seem an oppression.' Thomas Cahill
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