The Mill on the Po: Misery (Book Two) Popes … Even the falterings of

… Even the falterings of circumstance and the patternings of personality

SJ | Afterword by Waldemar Gurian

” “exquisite…perhaps the finest thing Undset has written since the inimitable Kristin Lavransdatter

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choosing instead to present Augustine’s “personality and thought in the everlasting form of his writings as a perennial possibility of Christian existence

The Mill on the Po: Misery (Book Two) Popes … Even the falterings ofBy Riccardo Bacchelli The Mill on the Po: Misery The Mill on the Po trilogy tells of the birth of Italy as a nation; its central figures are Lazzaro Scacerni and his family, their mill on the river Po, and the river itselfstately, savage, source of both life and death. And so we arrive at the encouraging truth that quarrels and wars and all the most violent human passions, when there is good will on the part of God and man, actually contribute to the