A trembling upon Rome : a work of fiction

In a powerful novel of the late Middle Ages, a time when three popes reigned simultaneously in the world, Richard Condon tells the epic story of Baldassare Cossa: lawyer, army general and prelate, born into a family of pirates, who twice refused to accept the papacy but who left a name reviled in Church history after he was finally trapped into becoming Pope John XXIII.See more