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Download or read book Popes and Bankers written by Jack Cashill and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMIDST THE WRECKAGE OF FINANCIAL RUIN, PEOPLE ARE LEFT PUZZLING ABOUT HOW IT HAPPENED. WHERE DID ALL THE PROBLEMS BEGIN? For the answer, Jack Cashill, a journalist as shrewd as he is seasoned, looks past the headlines and deep into pages of history and comes back with the goods. From Plato to payday loans, from Aristotle to AIG, from Shakespeare to the Salomon Brothers, from the Medici to Bernie Madoff—in Popes and Bankers Jack Cashill unfurls a fascinating story of credit and debt, usury and “the sordid love of gain.” With a dizzying cast of characters, including church officials, gutter loan sharks, and even the Knights Templar, Cashill traces the creative tension between “pious restraint” and “economic ambition” through the annals of human history and illuminates both the dark corners of our past and the dusty corners of our billfolds.
Download or read book God's Bankers written by Gerald Posner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: A “deeply researched” exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican (Chicago Tribune). From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, God’s Bankers traces the political intrigue of the Catholic Church in “a meticulous work that cracks wide open the Vatican’s legendary, enabling secrecy” (Kirkus Reviews). Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the church’s accumulation of wealth and its byzantine financial entanglements across the world. Telling the story through two hundred years of prelates, bishops, cardinals, and the popes who oversee it all, Gerald Posner uncovers an eyebrow-raising account of money and power in one of the world’s most influential organizations. God’s Bankers is a revelatory and astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, and mysterious deaths written off as suicides; a carnival of characters from popes and cardinals to financiers and mobsters to kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that not only clarify the church’s aims and ambitions, but reflect the larger tensions of more recent history. Posner also assesses Pope Francis’s potential to overcome the resistance to change in the Vatican’s Machiavellian inner court and rein in the excesses of its seemingly uncontrollable financial quagmire. “As exciting as a mystery thriller” (Providence Journal), this book reveals with extraordinary precision how the Vatican has evolved from a foundation of faith to a corporation of extreme wealth and power. “Reads like a sprawling novel, full of complex characters and surprising twists. . . . Readers interested in issues involving religion and international finance will find Posner’s work a compelling read.” —Library Journal “An extraordinarily intricate tale of intrigue, corruption and organized criminality. . . . Posner’s gifts as a reporter and storyteller are most vividly displayed in a series of lurid chapters on the American archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the arch-Machiavellian who ran the Vatican Bank from 1971-1989.” —The New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis The Pope, His Banker, and Venice by : Felix Gilbert
Download or read book The Pope, His Banker, and Venice written by Felix Gilbert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of how men worked, intrigued, and made business deals in an Italy invaded by continental countries and England. It brings together diplomacy, war, business, and politics, juxtaposing differing institutional structures and political ways among Italy's city states, and bringing into focus the new men of the Renaissance.
Book Synopsis Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome by : Francesco Guidi Bruscoli
Download or read book Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome written by Francesco Guidi Bruscoli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benvenuto Olivieri was a Florentine banker active in Rome during the first half of the sixteenth century. A self made man without any great family patrimony, he rose to prominence during the pontificate of Pope Paul III, becoming involved with a variety of papal enterprises which allowed him to get to the heart of the mechanisms governing the papal finances. Amassing a considerable fortune along the way, Olivieri soon built himself a role as co-ordinator of the appalti (revenue farms) and became one of the most powerful players in the complex network that connected bankers and the papal revenue. This book explores the indissoluble link that had developed between the papacy and bankers, illuminating how the Apostolic Chamber, increasingly in need of money, could not meet its debts, without farming out the rights to future income. Utilising documents from a rich corpus of unpublished sources in Florence and Rome, Guidi Bruscoli unravels the web of financial connections that bound together Florentine and Genoese bankers with the papacy, and looks at how money was raised and the appalti managed.
Book Synopsis Alessandro Torlonia by : Daniela Felisini
Download or read book Alessandro Torlonia written by Daniela Felisini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a vivid biography of a towering Italian banker, pioneer and entrepreneur. It weaves the entrepreneurial ventures of Alessandro Torlonia (1800-1886) through the narratives of business and politics in the Nineteenth century, the growth of European financial markets and the decline of Papal power during the Italian Risorgimento. The discussion is founded in rigorous historical research using original sources such as the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum papers and other official documents; the archives of the Torlonia family, and of the Rothschild bank in Paris; memoirs; correspondences, and newspapers. Through this book readers learn that Alessandro Torlonia was a man of many faces, who was one of the most complex and influential characters of Italian economic life in the nineteenth century. Felisini also provides an expert critique of the financial history of the papacy: an area of heightened interest given the notoriety of relations between the Holy See and its bankers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Focal topics such as the history of European elites and the history of European financial markets will have an interdisciplinary appeal for scholars and researchers.
Book Synopsis The Bank of the Pope, Or, The Sacred Taxes of the Chancery, and of the Penitentiary, of Rome, as Established by Pope John XXII in 1316, and Published by Pope Leo X in 1514 by :
Download or read book The Bank of the Pope, Or, The Sacred Taxes of the Chancery, and of the Penitentiary, of Rome, as Established by Pope John XXII in 1316, and Published by Pope Leo X in 1514 written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Supplement to Encyclopedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook on the History of European Banks by : Manfred Pohl
Download or read book Handbook on the History of European Banks written by Manfred Pohl and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyse: Banque cantonale vaudoise: p. 1072-1078.
Book Synopsis The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages by : Horace Kinder Mann
Download or read book The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages written by Horace Kinder Mann and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Army Under Pope by : John Codman Ropes
Download or read book The Army Under Pope written by John Codman Ropes and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Campaigns of the Civil War: The army under Pope. By J.C. Ropes. 1882 by :
Download or read book Campaigns of the Civil War: The army under Pope. By J.C. Ropes. 1882 written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jewish Bankers and the Holy See from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Century by : Léon Poliakov
Download or read book Jewish Bankers and the Holy See from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Century written by Léon Poliakov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1977 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bankers', Insurance Managers', and Agents' Magazine by :
Download or read book The Bankers', Insurance Managers', and Agents' Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Banking and Banks by : Sidney Dean
Download or read book History of Banking and Banks written by Sidney Dean and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis McMaster's Commercial Cases for the Banker, Treasurer and Credit Man by : James Smith McMaster
Download or read book McMaster's Commercial Cases for the Banker, Treasurer and Credit Man written by James Smith McMaster and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Medieval History by : Henry Melvill Gwatkin
Download or read book The Cambridge Medieval History written by Henry Melvill Gwatkin and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
