Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Short History of the Papacy and the Popes: Condensed From the Large Book of Louis Decormenin
The conclave assembles at Venice. After an hundred and four days Of intrique, the Benedictine Chiaramonti was chosen pope, under the name of Pius the Seventh.
The pontiff forms an alliance with the republic, and signs the famous concordat.
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