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adam_mcphee 's review for:
Julius II: The Warrior Pope
by Christine Shaw
“Julius did try to fulfil the duties and responsibilities of his office as he saw them, but he was really not cut out to be a pope. He was the type of the plain-spoken, short-tempered, vigorous, impetuous, big-hearted man of action, of uncomplicated, genuine faith. A Franciscan he may have been, but he was never made for the religious life: he said of himself that he would have made a bad monk, because he could not stay still. He should have been a soldier: with some training, he might have been a good one.
"'Certainly worthy of great glory, if he had been a secular prince' an ironic comment from Guicciardini, and a strange epitaph for a pope, but perhaps the most fitting for the 'warrior pope', Julius II.”
Very useful biography that gives useful background on the Italian Wars during his pontificate.
One note of contention is that the beginning is a bit confusing because it's so easy to miss the author's switch from using his birth name "Giuliano della Rovere," to his nickname/churchname, "Vincula." Vincula such a cool name, too. "In chains," from his title church, St. Peter in Chains.
"'Certainly worthy of great glory, if he had been a secular prince' an ironic comment from Guicciardini, and a strange epitaph for a pope, but perhaps the most fitting for the 'warrior pope', Julius II.”
Very useful biography that gives useful background on the Italian Wars during his pontificate.
One note of contention is that the beginning is a bit confusing because it's so easy to miss the author's switch from using his birth name "Giuliano della Rovere," to his nickname/churchname, "Vincula." Vincula such a cool name, too. "In chains," from his title church, St. Peter in Chains.