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Ambrogio is an academic and non-fiction writer, currently Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Kent in Canterbury and lives in Southwark. He is the author of four books which have focused on European History, especially the French Revolution, Napoleon and Catholicism's fraught relationship with modernity. His second book, To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII 1800-1815, was published by Yale University Press in April 2021, just before the bicentenary of Napoleon’s death and won the 2021 Franco-British Book Prize.

His newest book is: 'Flirting with Evil, The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation.' It is a candid portrait of the Faustian pacts made with totalitarian dictatorships and the many sc ...more

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Out Today Flirting with Evil 4 June 2026

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The history of the Catholic Church in the twentieth century is one of spies, scandals and bad political choices. It's a shadowy, ornate world of cover-ups and hidden motives. In this book, Ambrogio Caiani lifts back the heavy velvet curtains of the chancel and peers behind the locked mahogany doors of the Vatican to reveal the shocking truths that make up a century of Catholic corruption Read more of this blog post »

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Published on June 07, 2026 02:34 • Tags: abuse-and-vatican-ii, catholicism, fascism, papacy, politics

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	To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII, 1800-1815 4.26 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World: The Catholic Church in the Age of Revolution and Democracy 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789–1792 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of the European Restorations: Governments, States and Monarchy by Michael Broers (Editor), Ambrogio A. Caiani (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars: Volume III, Experience, Culture and Memory by Alan Forrest (Editor), Peter Hicks (Editor), Katherine B. Aaslestad (Contributor) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of the European Restorations: Culture, Society and Religion by Michael Broers (Editor), Ambrogio A. Caiani (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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