The re-establishment of a temporal jurisdiction for the papacy, lost in 1870 as a result of Italian unification, was in many ways a side-effect of the larger achievements of both sides. It becomes even clearer that the agreement was a brilliant, ‘win-win’ solution to the problems faced by the leaders of Italy’s Catholic faithful and of Italy’s fascist coup. Kertzer’s analysis sheds light on the circumstances in which a formal agreement was reached in 1929 between the papacy and the Kingdom of Italy which purported to establish ‘the Vatican City’ as a sovereign, independent international entity. David Kertzer’s The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe describes in meticulous and at times shocking detail the history of collaboration between the Pope and the de facto head of the Italian state in the 1920s and 1930s.
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