- Death and burial, Popes, Biography, Burial
An investigation into the sudden death of Pope John Paul I on September 28, 1978 probes rumors of conspiracy and murder surrounding the death and reveals intense rivalries within the Vatican, financial scandals involving the Vatican bank, and other controversial allegations.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- John Cornwell
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 366
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Editions Robert Laffont, Simon and Schuster
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780517088753
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“It was dark, so dark, yet somewhere far away, deep in the night a bird was chirping.”
John Cornwell is a British journalist, author, and academic. Since 1990 he has directed the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he is also, since 2009, Founder and Director of the Rustat Conferences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (University of Leicester) in 2011. He is best known for his investigative journalism; memoir; and his work in public understanding of science. In addition to his books on the relationship between science, ethics and the humanities, he has written widely on the Catholic Church and the modern papacy. - Wikipedia
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