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The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to invite you to the book presentation: Parallel Empires, The Vatican and the United States. Two Centuries of Alliance and Conflict, by Massimo Franco.The history of the turbulent relationship between the United States and the Holy See, recounted and analyzed by Italian journalist and Vatican insider Massimo Franco in Parallel Empires (New York, Doubleday, Random House, 2009, translation by Roland Flamini), will be the subject of a discussion panel moderated by the Italian journalist Ennio Caretto. With the participation, together with the author and translator, of Dr. Lucio Caracciolo, director of the magazine Limes; Dr. John L. Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs, Georgetown University; Amb. Thomas P. Melady, Senior Diplomat in Residence, Institute of World Politics; R. James Nicholson, former US Secretary of Veterans Affairs. H.E. the Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Giovanni Castellaneta, will open the discussion panel.Drawing on unique access to the archives of the Holy See and a range of sources both in Washington, D.C. and Rome, Parallel Empires charts the path of U.S.-Vatican relations to reveal the dramatic religious and political tensions that have shaped their dealings and our world. The book also details the most recent developments of this relationship, including the contemporary disagreements over the Iraq War and the engagement with the Islamic world, and the Papacy of Benedict XVI. MASSIMO FRANCO writes a daily column for Corriere della Sera, Italy’s leading newspaper. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkley, and is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Translator ROLAND FLAMINI reported from Rome for Time magazine in the 1980s, with a focus on the Vatican. This event is presented in collaboration with Mondadori, Random House, New York University, and Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
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