A Dark History: The Popes
by Brenda Ralph Lewis
A beautiful 250 page book with hundreds of color illustrations.
Tells the story of the vice, murder and corruption in the Vatican
from the Dark Ages through WWII.
Highlights include:
Formosus (891-896) who was dug up from his grave,
put on trial and then thrown in the Tiber.
Pope John XII (955-964) who ran a brothel in the Vatican.
Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) who ran the Albigensian Crusade which
killed over 1 million over 20 years.
Alexander VI (1492-1503) Fathered eight children by four mistresses and
bribed his way to the Vatican.