The Commentaries of Aeneas Sylvius. Trans. Florence Grragg. Folio Society, ©1988. Hardcover, 373 pages. 10 plates. Think of Siena – the Piccolomini chapel. This book gives all the background to the stories painted there as well as describing Siena’s relationship with Florence, Mantua and Milan; famous personalities such as Cardinal Bessarion is mentioned frequently, as is Ferrante, King of Naples,…
Peter Hodgson. Saint Austin Press, 2002. Softcover, 222 pages. This book is especially important for its exploration of the Catholic church’s unique contribution to the natural sciences. The topics covered include the role of the Christian scientist, the urgency of accepting nuclear power – and much more. €5.00
8 cd’s in an attractive nylon zipper case. €15. Explanation is in English.
Grazia Bellano Westphal, Patricia Ghezzi. Dialogues vidéo, Compétences, Culture et citoyenneté, ESABAC. Impara il linguaggio Francese. €10.
Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy. Margherita Marchione, Ph.D. Paulist Press, 1997. Hard cover with dust jacket. 259pp. A member of the Religious Teachers Filippini who have a house on via Bottega Oscure, a few blocks from the Jewish Ghetto and from which they had sheltered 114 Jews from 1943-44. Sister Marchione had made it her personal quest…
Born in Warsaw, Poland and the youngest child of a cultured, Zionist family of Ashkenazi Jews, he is a survivor of Bergen-Belsen. He arrived in Palestine in 1945 and passed there in 2001. He was an Israeli professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor, an intellectual of liberal political bent, and a civil-rights advocate…
R. Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. B. Herder, 1965. Hardcover with dustjacket, 480 pages. No marks, pages yellowed on outside edges, but not inside. weighs 940 grams. €20. This book is so beautiful, such a masterpiece, that it is difficult for me to convey just to what extent. In this book, Father Garrigou-Lagrange gives a deep theological treatise on the theological virtue of…
Anonymous author. Pelican, 2003. Softcover, 565 pages. Clean copy. Pencil marks only in 1 section of the index. weighs 915 grams. €10. “Here are the writings and speeches of the Pope and the German hierarchy, the official decrees and instructions of the government, and the speeches and teachings of the [Nazi] Party. The cumulative weight of this testimony is sufficient…
Comprehensive accounts, including funerals, burial places and Epitaphs. Wendy J. Reardon. Beautiful hardcover. 310 pages. Weighs 750 grams. €40. Excellent condition. The traditions associated with a pope’s death have changed from when they were buried in the catacombs of Rome. Various ceremonies, rites and rituals developed over time, but a formal procedure was not initiated until the early 1300s and…
Daniel Brown. 2004. Softcover. Underlining throughout, brief side notes. €5. The author is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Religion in the Middle East (ISRME). He is the editor of the forthcoming Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Hadith. Easy to read, elegantly written, and at times humorous, this book bases itself solidly on the principle of critical…