02693cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000390012624500280016526400510019330000470024433600260029133700260031733800360034350000310037950802060041052014340061653400650205065300410211565300470215665300460220385600630224985600430231277944UtSlPG20260610134815.0mcr n260607r20261912utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a12012133  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aDavis, William Stearns,d1877-193014aThe friar of Wittenberg 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-02-15  aTim Lindell, Dori Allard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)  aThe friar of Wittenberg by William Stearns Davis is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. Set amid the splendor and corruption of Renaissance Rome on the eve of the Reformation, it follows Gualtiero, Conte di Palaestro (Graf von Regenstein), an Italian-bred German noble entangled with cardinals, artists, and courtiers whose path bends north toward Martin Luther and a crisis of conscience. Expect intrigue, romance, and grand pageantry turning into moral reckoning as Italian humanism collides with German reforming fervor.

The opening of The friar of Wittenberg plunges into Vatican intrigue: Cardinals Forli and Rocca plot to unseat—and, by hired dagger, remove—the favored Archbishop of Bari, dangling church advancement before Gualtiero, who refuses to join a murder. Between a glimpse of Raphael’s new painting and a glittering Chigi banquet, Gualtiero woos Forli’s brilliant daughter Marianna, defends Germans against Bembo’s jibes, then is abruptly arrested when the bravo Ettore Orosi blames him for a failed attack on Bari. Before Pope Leo X, Gualtiero will not betray Forli or Rocca; Leo soothes Bari with a prebend, stays the bravo’s fate, and banishes Gualtiero from Italy. The section closes with his journey north and stark arrival at his ancestral fortress of Regenstein, signaling a turn from Roman luxury to a harsher, awakening world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: The MacMillan Company, 1912  aLuther, Martin, 1483-1546 -- Fiction  aGermany -- History -- 1517-1648 -- Fiction  aGermany -- History -- 1273-1517-- Fiction4 uhttps://archive.org/details/friarofwittenber00davi/page/n540uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77944