A NARRATIVE OF INIQUITIES AND BARBARITIES PRACTISED AT ROME IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. BY RAFFAELE CIOCCI, FORMERLY A BENEDICTINE AND CISTERCIAN MONK, LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO., BERNERS STREET. A NARRATIVE, ETC., ETC. WHEN I look back upon the past, and contemplate the depths of the stormy vortex from which God, in his infinite mercy, hath delivered me, it is with the feelings of Dante's shipwrecked mariner, who "Volgesi all' onda perigliosa e guata." "Turns to the perilous wide waste and stands The Church of Rome presents itself to my mind in exactly the same light in which it has been viewed by an imaginative modern writer, who most aptly compares it to the Colosseum. This solemn edifice, raised by the pride of a powerful people, was the work of slaves, who toiled only to prepare a place of torment for themselves and for others. The Church of Rome, which aspired to a lofty pre-eminence, in like manner made use of the abject submission of subjugated nations to B |
