The Nuns Of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story Of A Convent In Scandal - Plot & Excerpts
Katharina von Hohenzollern Complains to the Inquisition ROME AS A HEAVENLY JERUSALEM Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Joachim Winckelmann both longed for Italy, intoxicated by the idea of Rome, the stronghold of classical antiquity. But it wasn’t this idea that drove Katharina there.1 Nor was she following in the footsteps of the great German royal houses, from the Karolingers to the Staufer Carolingians, who had come to the city on the Tiber to take the emperor’s crown. Katharina’s destination was an order of pious women, so her motivation for coming to the pope’s city must have been largely religious. But, starting in the mid-eighteenth century, Rome had undergone a dramatic decline as a religious center.2 Situated in the middle of Italy, the Papal States covered at least a quarter of the Apennine Peninsula, and, as their secular prince, the pope was increasingly drawn into political and military conflicts to protect his rule. This left him less and less able to take care of his duties as spiritual head of the Catholic Church.
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