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Alas, all I can give you is Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marble Faun - ottocentesco and romantic and all that. This probably belong to Italian Studies, especially if it could take Anglo/American/Italian Studies under its wing, rather than medieval-religion. At any rate, in the Romance, he's a splendid Pope - because of the attractive tomb. > >At 14.47 07/07/97 +0100, you wrote: >>> >>> A very brief pontificate--11 months, as I recall--sandwiched between those >>> of Boniface VIII and Clement V, and so often forgotten. A Dominican pope, >>> Benedict XI's very attractive tomb is at San Domenico in the lovely Umbrian >>> hill-top town of Perugia. Perugia was the home of his pontificate. There >>> are legends (in the ordinary, not the technical sense) surrounding his >>> death--e.g. poisoned eels from Lake Trasimeno? >>> >>> Is there a modern biography of him? >>> >>> Gary Dickson >>> University of Edinburgh >>> >>> >>I, too, would love to know of recent work done on Benedict. I'm trying >>to contextualize a work addressed to him, and obviously it would help >>if I could know of the pope's character. The only biographies I've >>found on Benedict are literally centuries old. So, if anyone knows of >>twentieth-century scholarship on this figures -- particularly on his >>academic formation and his general approach to theology and to papal >>power -- do let me (and us) know. >> >>George Ferzoco >>[log in to unmask] >> >> > ____ Julia Bolton Holloway, [log in to unmask] http://members.aol.com/juliansite/Juliansite.htm For a soul that seth the Maker of al thyng, all that is made semyth fulle lytylle %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%