Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy

Praise for John Julius Norwich
 
“As a historian, Lord Norwich knows what matters. As a writer, he has a taste for beauty, a love of language, and an enlivening wit. He contrives, as no English writer has done before, to sustain a continuous interest in that crowded history.”—Hugh Trevor-Roper, author of The Last Days of Hitler and The Golden Age of Europe
 
“Norwich is an enchanting and satisfying raconteur.”—The Washington Post
 
“He has put readers of this generation more in his debt than any other English writer.”—The Sunday Times (London)
 
“Norwich is a historian of uncommon urbanity: scholarly and erudite but never pedantic. His style is as graceful and easy as it is knowledgeable.”—Los Angeles Times
 
“[Norwich] is certainly the English language’s most passionate and dedicated chronicler of [Venice’s] extraordinary history.”—The Seattle Times