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100 1 _aDavis, William Stearns,
_d1877-1930
245 1 4 _aThe friar of Wittenberg
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-15
508 _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.)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: The MacMillan Company, 1912
653 _aLuther, Martin, 1483-1546 -- Fiction
653 _aGermany -- History -- 1517-1648 -- Fiction
653 _aGermany -- History -- 1273-1517-- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/friarofwittenber00davi/page/n5
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77944
999 _c118664
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