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PONT. MAX. -- Summer Sojourns in the Rome of the Popes

PONT. MAX. -- Summer Sojourns in the Rome of the Popes     

 by Anthony T. Piantieri
Price: $34.99

304 Pages, Hardback, 8.25 x 11

ISBN-10: 0-9822863-0-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-9822863-0-2

PONT. MAX.: Summer Sojourns in the Rome of the Popes is an idyllic summertime vacation in the Eternal City - a leisurely stroll down its narrow, rustic, yellow ochre lanes back through the centuries to the ages of the Italian Renaissance and Catholic Reformation when Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bernini all labored in the employ of the popes, who left their indelible mark on the city on the Tiber, while inventing the modern capital. It's a tourist's guidebook, a culinary adventure, a cool twilight sip of Frascati in the piazza with the chitarrista, and above all else, a pedestrian history, entered through the back door, of the art, architecture, and men of genius - sinners and saints, pontiffs and princes - that defined an age.


About The Author

Over the past 30 years, Anthony Piantieri has taught the history of the Roman Catholic Church in various venues ranging from adult education evening courses in the South Bronx Pastoral Center, to private living rooms, and, of course, the high school classroom. He has also taught courses in philosophy and Western literature, but is particularly proud of his culinary skills, where he was awarded a certificate from the Italian Culinary Institute in New York, in addition to being inducted into its wine confraternity, "La Compagnia di Bacco." While spending much of his spare time playing his beloved Steinway, singing the Great American Songbook, impromptu, at the La Rivista Restaurant on New York's famed 46th St.'s "Restaurant Row," or just hanging with Frank and Sal at "Patsy's," Mr. Piantieri makes his home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, and loves vacationing in"Bella Italia" and Northern California - especially that great, big, foggy town by the Golden Gate. He presently teaches courses in Church history and cinema studies at the elite Fordham Preparatory School, a Jesuit institution situated on the Rose Hill Campus of Fordham University in the Bronx.


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