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Pope Pius V

1504–1572

Pope Pius V was head of the Catholic Church from 1566 to 1572 and a leading figure of the Counter-Reformation. He excommunicated Elizabeth I and helped organise the Holy League that defeated the Ottoman fleet at Lepanto.

Pope Pius V also worked as Roman Catholic Bishop of Mondovì, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nepi and Sutri, and cardinal priest. Pope Pius V was born in Bosco Marengo and died in Rome.

In S. J. Parris’ A Christmas Requiem, Rome, 1569. Giordano Bruno is summoned to demonstrate his extraordinary memory before Pope Pius V. Steven Veerapen’s Divided Loyalties is set in the year Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth I, a decision that intensified English fears of Catholic conspiracy and foreign intervention. Walsingham and Catherine de’ Medici appear under their historical identities, while the Diamond League, the Cole marriage and the central plots are fictional. In Steven Veerapen’s The Last Judgement, the death of Pope Pius V brings the cardinals together to elect his successor, and Jack and Amy Cole are drawn into a city in which diplomatic factions, church politics and secret intelligence overlap.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Pope Pius V (2 series)

Giordano Bruno Novels in Order

by S. J. Parris 10 books 4.3(46,581)

The Giordano Bruno novels follow the historical Italian philosopher through a fictional career as investigator and intelligence agent. Beginning with his youth in Dominican Naples and continuing through exile in Elizabethan England, France and Prague, the series combines murder mysteries with Reformation conflict, court politics, espionage and Renaissance…

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Jack and Amy Cole in Order

by Steven Veerapen 3 books 4.0(2,008)

Steven Veerapen’s Jack and Amy Cole trilogy follows a married couple drawn into the intelligence and religious conflicts surrounding Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. A Dangerous Trade begins during Mary’s English captivity; Divided Loyalties moves to the crisis created by the papal excommunication of Elizabeth in…

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