![]() ![]() Then, he says that Victor II is buried in the Mausoleum of Theodoric at Ravenna. Lorenzo it's the duomo (cathedral), as thirty seconds with Google will reveal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Norwich writes that he can find no church in Perugia dedicated to S. Nor is Polycarp "suspected" of writing the Pauline epistles, or any of them. Luke is not regarded as the first evangelist by any reputable scholar. The following are chosen just for illustration, rather than with any aim of completeness. Sad to say, too many factual errors have slipped through for comfort. Given the range of material he has had to work through, it would be astonishing if he had time to assess the value of everything he uses, and to check the facts that he passes on. In this work, he is writing more as a compiler than as a direct researcher: he is very dependent on the works of others for his facts - something he fully acknowledges-, and though he overlays these with his own views and his great narrative skill, that dependence on others shows in this book more than usually. Viscount Norwich has written many history books, and his skill as a writer is evident in all of them. ![]()
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