"Not a life written by a professor for professors, but the portrait of a living man, painted by a man who lived." When Giovanni Papini published Saint Augustine in 1929, his conversion to Catholicism—culminating a few years earlier with the famous History of Christ—was still at the center of a heated cultural debate. In Augustine of Hippo, Papini found his own spiritual mirror: the restless young ...
Giovanni Papini - Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
Giovanni Papini
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"Not a life written by a professor for professors, but the portrait of a living man, painted by a man who lived." When Giovanni Papini published Saint Augustine in 1929, his conversion to Catholicism—culminating a few years earlier with the famous History of Christ—was still at the center of a heated cultural debate. In Augustine of Hippo, Papini found his own spiritual mirror: the restless young rhetorician, the insatiable seeker of truth, the sensual and…