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Pope Pius V

1504–1572

Pope Pius V was head of the Catholic Church from 1566 to 1572 and a leading figure of the Counter-Reformation. He excommunicated Elizabeth I and helped organise the Holy League that defeated the Ottoman fleet at Lepanto.

In S. J. Parris’s A Christmas Requiem, Giordano Bruno is summoned to demonstrate his extraordinary memory before Pope Pius V. The invitation brings the young friar into the papal court, where austere religious authority exists beside patronage, rivalry and private ambition.

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Series featuring Pope Pius V (1 series)

Giordano Bruno Novels in Order

by S. J. Parris 10 books 4.3

The Giordano Bruno novels follow the historical Italian philosopher through a fictional career as investigator and intelligence agent. Beginning with his youth in Dominican Naples and continuing through exile in Elizabethan England, France and Prague, the series combines murder mysteries with Reformation conflict, court politics, espionage and Renaissance…

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