AMERICAN FOUNDATION OF SAVOY ORDERS
T H E A M E R I C A N F O U N D A T I O N OF S A V O Y O R D E R S
S A V O Y H I S T O R Y S E R I E S 2024
Professor Caroline Weber
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Introductory Remarks by HRH Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia,
Grandson of His Late Majesty King Umberto II of Italy POPE PIUS IX AND THE KINGDOM OF ITALY 
Presentation by Prof. Caroline Weber
Author and historian Caroline Weber will focus on the longest-reigning pontiff after Saint Peter, Pius IX (1792-1878; r. 1846-1878), who was the last pope to rule as temporal king of the Papal States, losing that position when Rome fell to the Piedmontese in September 1870. As a result of significant changes in the European balance of power after France’s defeat at the Battle of Sedan, King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy seized the opportunity to finally occupy Rome and declare it the new nation’s capital. Pope Pius IX, the indomitable and long-serving pontiff, refused to surrender the keys to his city. Within the walls of Rome, the Papal Curia as well as a majority of Rome’s citizens, deplored the event as an act of illegal aggression against a sovereign state. Drawing on original research from the Vatican archives, Professor Caroline Weber will discuss Pope Pius IX’s life and reign—a volatile negotiation between the traditions of the Church and the forces of modernity—and will pay particular attention to his fraught relationship with the Royal House of Savoy.”
Caroline Weber is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University. Her most recent book, Proust’s Duchess (2018), won the French Heritage Society Book Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, and a writer-in-residence at Edith Wharton’s estate and library in the Berkshires. Her work on Pius IX is drawn from her forthcoming group biography of nineteenth-century royals who lost their thrones. |
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