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    <body><![CDATA[A.J.A. Symons's investigative biography &quot;The Quest for Corvo&quot; will make you think Corvo's &quot;Hadrian VII&quot; is an overlooked masterpiece.  Well, when I finally got my hands on a copy, expecting to have my socks knocked off, and started reading it, let's just say I wondered what the d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18715579">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very strange book. Apparently it was written as some kind of wishfulfilment, and it's about a Catholic Englishman who failed in becoming a priest when he was younger. Years later he is elected to become the new Pope and proceeds to try to change the Catholic Church. The book is written in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57868505">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>If I were Pope . . .</strong><br/>This is an interesting book with an interesting premise: a former seminary student now living as failed poverty-stricken journalist is by an unlikely technicality elected Pope and works for world peace, selling off the Vatican treasures in the process. It's cranky, sometime...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31044099">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I recently read and was fascinated by The Question of Corvo, which is a book about the author of Hadrian the Seventh (a man named Frederick Rolfe who adopted the name Baron Fr. Corvo to imply that he was both a priest and a nobleman). I'm looking forward to this!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Pope dies and somehow your intrinsic greatness is recognized by the Cardinals and wallah, you're Pope.  What would you do with all that newfound goodness?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This play is overlooked and undervalued, and that's a shame, since it's riveting and quite brilliant.  A nobody becomes pope!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What if one day you woke up and discovered you had been named pope?  Somewhat of an over-the-top and nutty book. ]]></body>
    
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