Padre Pio
Winner of the Cundill Prize in History

“An outstanding biography”
– New Left Review

“A solid exploration into the fine line between the faithful and the fraudulent in twentieth-century Catholicism”
– Kirkus Reviews

“Sergio Luzzatto writes with verve, insight, and diligence… A lively and thorough study”
– PopMatters

“Luzzatto’s book is masterful… The research is staggeringly

deep and wide… The framework is transdisciplinary… The writing is enviably lucid, and never lush”
– Ramachandra Guha, the Philippe Roman Professor of History and International Relations, London School of Economics

“Fascinating… Luzzatto is quite brilliant in explicating how the cult of Padre Pio reflected and refracted dynamics within Italian society and the Roman Catholic Church”
– Commonweal

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The Body of Il Duce

“A brilliant young historian”
– The New Yorker

“One of Italy’s most talented younger historians”
– Robert O. Paxton, author of The Anatomy of Fascism

“The hardest working corpse in Italy… led an extraordinary afterlife, worthy of a biographer of Luzzatto’s enthusiasm and skill”
– The Nation