http://www.friendlybits.com Information Technology for the rest of us... Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:54:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.friendlybits.com/en/religion_en/brown_italian_en/comment-page-1/#comment-5603 Resi Cibabene Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:34:43 +0000 http://www.friendlybits.com/en/religion_en/dan-brown-doesnt-know-italian/#comment-5603 Well, in my opinion the most appalling mistake in the novel is when Langdon is concerned that some churches are out of Vatican City and finds an absurd theory to explain why Bernini and the church could make decisions about what to do out of the state. Vatican City became a state only in 1870, when the Italian troops took Rome after an assault. The Pope declared himself a prisoner of the Italian monarchy and never left the Vatican until pope John XXIII decided to put an end to this claimed inprisonment and went to Loreto in pilgrimage. Before 1870, Rome was the capital of the church's state and all of the churches in town were decorated as the pope wanted and his artists suggested. This is really a horrible sign of poor accuracy. Anyway, I enjoyed the novel a lot! Well, in my opinion the most appalling mistake in the novel is when Langdon is concerned that some churches are out of Vatican City and finds an absurd theory to explain why Bernini and the church could make decisions about what to do out of the state. Vatican City became a state only in 1870, when the Italian troops took Rome after an assault. The Pope declared himself a prisoner of the Italian monarchy and never left the Vatican until pope John XXIII decided to put an end to this claimed inprisonment and went to Loreto in pilgrimage. Before 1870, Rome was the capital of the church’s state and all of the churches in town were decorated as the pope wanted and his artists suggested. This is really a horrible sign of poor accuracy. Anyway, I enjoyed the novel a lot!

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