John Julius Norwich

“God has given us the Papacy,” the thirty-seven-year-old pope is said to have written to his brother Giuliano soon after his accession,…

— John Julius Norwich

“The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding FROM the Son meant the same…

— John Julius Norwich

“The fact remains that he was less a pope than a Renaissance prince. Homosexual like his predecessor, he was a cultivated and…

— John Julius Norwich

“All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...”

— John Julius Norwich

“Charlemagne, however, was predictably furious. He had grown up with the filioque; if the East refused to accept it, the East was…

— John Julius Norwich