A medieval tale of a dead bishops treasure, a pope and a pirate whose name means fire blast or fire fart has been revealed in newly published documents from the Vatican archives. The tale may seem more like Hollywood than reality. Hollywood could use this story. But Hollywood does not know anything about it because it is buried in the documents edited here, Charles Donahue Jr., a professor at Harvard University, wrote in the preface to the newly published book The Spoils of the Pope and the Pirates, 1357: The Complete Legal Dossier from the Vatican Archives (The Ames Foundation, 2014). livescience/48067-pirate-tale-revealed-in-vatican-archives.html
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 05:51:04 +0000