Basilica : The Splendour And The Scandal Building St Peters

In 1506, the ferociously ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the millennium-old St. Peter’s Basilica – the most sacred shrine in Europe – to build a better basilica. Construction of the new St. Peter’s spanned two centuries, embroiled 27 popes, and consumed the genius of the greatest artists of the age. It was the splendor – and the scandal – of the age.
This swift, colorful narrative brings to life the artists and the popes, the politics and the passions behind this audacious enterprise.