Clelia: Il governo dei preti - Romanzo storico politico by Giuseppe Garibaldi

"Clelia: Il governo dei preti - Romanzo storico politico" by Giuseppe Garibaldi is an anticlerical novel published in 1870. Set in papal Rome, the story follows Clelia, a beautiful young woman who seeks help from the corrupt Cardinal Procopio when her father is arrested. When the immoral prelate attempts to seduce her, Clelia must flee with her beloved and friends to escape. Written to earn money, Garibaldi's fierce work attacks church corruption and despotism while celebrating revolutionary ideals and sacrifice for Italy's freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882
Title Clelia: Il governo dei preti - Romanzo storico politico
Note Wikipedia page about this book: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_governo_dei_preti
Credits Produced by Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks, and the Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level Reading ease score: 40.1 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Language Italian
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Historical fiction
Subject Rome (Italy) -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 7151
Release Date
Last Update Jan 17, 2013
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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