{"id":394,"date":"2025-05-05T11:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/?p=394"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:38:48","slug":"new-episode-of-the-chesterton-institute-podcast-chesterton-and-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/2025\/05\/05\/new-episode-of-the-chesterton-institute-podcast-chesterton-and-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Episode of the Chesterton Institute Podcast: “Chesterton and Italy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can listen to the episode here: Chesterton and Italy<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1929,\u202fG.K.<\/a>\u202fChester<\/a>\"\"ton<\/a>\u202ftraveled to Rome to attend the beatification of the English Martyrs, while there he had private audiences with both Mussolini and Pope Pius XI.<\/p>\n

From the Hotel Hassler at the top of the Spanish Steps, he had one of the best views of the city. For a man who never was at a loss of words, it seems it was hard for Chesterton\u00a0to describe the Eternal City, however, he wrote and reflected on his time in room in his book \u201cThe Resurrection of Rome.\u201d\u00a0 In it he writes about: the outline of the city; the story of the status, the pillar of Lateran; the return of the Gods, and the return of the romans, finishing with a chapter about the Holy Land<\/p>\n

He remarked: \u201cRome is too small for its greatness, or too great for its smallness.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Roman civilization is at the heart of G.K. Chesterton\u2019s historical imagination. Nowhere is this more evident than in his 1925 book “The Everlasting Man,” which challenged a materialist, evolutionary perspective on history and highlighted the distinctive place of the Christian Church in the development of civilization.”–Susan Hanssen, Dept. of History, U. of Dallas, Texas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can listen to the episode here: Chesterton and Italy In 1929,\u202fG.K.\u202fChesterton\u202ftraveled to Rome to attend the beatification of the English Martyrs, while there he had private audiences with both Mussolini and Pope Pius XI. From the Hotel Hassler at the top of the Spanish Steps, he had one of the best views of the city. For a man who… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[40,39,14,24,21,45],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g-k-c-quote","tag-campus-ministry","tag-center-for-catholic-studies","tag-chesterton","tag-department-of-catholic-studies","tag-seton-hall-university","tag-university-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}