Journal of a Tour in Italy, in 1850 : With an Account of an Interview with the Pope at the Vatican
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
ISBN-10
1108069266
ISBN-13
9781108069267
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 20th, 2014
Print length
318 Pages
Weight
416 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.90 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
European historyEuropean history
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An Anglican clergyman and biblical scholar, George Townsend (1788–1857) published in 1850 this intriguing account of his journey to Italy for an audience with Pope Pius IX, whom he intended to convert to Protestantism. Tendentious and forthright, the journal reflects a strong English anti-Catholicism.
A Church of England clergyman and biblical scholar, George Townsend (1788–1857) gained recognition for preparing chronological arrangements of both the Old and New Testament. First published in 1850, the present work is an intriguing account of his journey to Italy for an audience with Pope Pius IX, whom he intended to convert to Protestantism. Townsend's journal features details of his stay in Paris, where he was received by the city's archbishop, as well as remarks on the churches and clergy he encountered along the way. In Rome and the Vatican, he visited the main sites of interest while commenting on points of doctrinal divergence and the hospitality shown towards him. Warmly received by Pius IX, who chose to interpret the visit as ecumenical, Townsend inevitably failed in his ultimate objective. Tendentious and forthright, his work sheds light on a strain of English anti-Catholicism.
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