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Civilisation: 7: Grandeur and Obedience

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A personal view by Kenneth Clark

'Papal Rome - the Rome of Sixtus V - is the most grandiose piece of town planning ever attempted. The amazing thing is that it was done only a generation after Rome had been - as it seemed - completely humiliated, almost wiped off the map.'
Kenneth Clark is in the Rome of the Counter-Reformation - the Rome of Michelangelo and of Bernini. The Catholic Church in its fight against the Protestant north developed a new splendour symbolised by the glory of St Peter's.
(Book £4.75, paperback £2.25: see p 51)

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Presenter:
Kenneth Clark
Director/producer:
Peter Montagnon
Producer:
Michael Gill
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