Michelangelo Buonarroti: Life and Work

Michelangelo Buonarroti: Life and Work

by A. Gromling

Publiser: Barnes & Noble (June 2000)

ISBN-13: 9780760721636

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This is a very special volume of Michelangelo’s artistic value, biography, and the cultural history of Renaissance as an essential reference to any scholar’s collection of Christian Art and Church History. Further, I highly recommend this book to anyone travelling to Italy to study the art of Michelangelo in person since it serves as a reference point to each historical tour site of Renaissance Art. The concise book will highlight in color the major and minor works of Buonarroti from the City of Florence to the Vatican, which includes sketches, graphs, and anthologies of his works of beauty and truth.

Overall, I think the coffee table presentation paints a “great picture” of why Michelangelo was the most sought after artist in Europe during the Renaissance, and it envelopes the background of unique persons and places that accompanied the Florentine’s romancing life work of sculpture and paint in the highest forms of Divinity and Humanities .

Why Apologize for the Spanish Inquisition?

Why Apologize for the Spanish Inquisition?

by Very. Rev. Fr. Alphonsus Maria Duran
Publisher: Eric Gladkowski (February 1, 2000)
ISBN-10: 0970223501
ISBN-13: 978-0970223500

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This Classic Essay on the History of the Spanish Inquisition holds back no apologies for extermination of heresy in Catholic Spain. The book details the office of Catholic Monarch when Europe was being attacked both by Protestant Reformers in the North and the Islamic Infidel in the South. And on top of that there was the internal threat of Judaizing within the Catholic borders. The Union of Church and State Powers to remove this threat was a paramount success in the kingdoms of Catholic Spain, and the Holy Office of the Inquisition would not tolerate such Judaizer-Conversos who pretended to be Christians in order to undermine both Church and State and even conspire against both from within Catholic Spain.

The book refutes the bias of pseudo-historians who try to describe Spanish Royals and Inquisitors as being blood-thirsty sadists. It will convince any logical and open-minded person that the Church and State in Catholic Spain had to act according to the fullest letter of law to bring back the true spirit of contrition and Catholic fidelity of such Conversos. After reading this book, no one will doubt the sincere and firm orthodoxy that the Spanish Inquisition brought forth, and the strength of virtue that Catholic Spain enjoyed after the initial purges of the 16th and 17th Centuries.