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Complaints and Controversies

Controversey 1.
Is there anything to the "DaVinci Code"? Scholars say it's all made up. The author claimed that the background was all fact. Critics say the book isn't very good. Is it so popular because it's basically anti-Catholic?  Is this the Protocols of the Elders of Rome?

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Controversey 2.
Why was Galileo imprisoned? What was the role of Pope Urban VIII?
Copernicus and heliocentrism. Giordano Bruno, and why he is a latter day hero.

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Controversey 3.
Were the Borgias as bad as they seemed? Were the any worse than their peers? Who poisoned whom? Did anyone poison anyone? Does Lucrezia's image need correcting?

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Complaints:
Did / do the "Talking Statues" ("Statue Parlante") provide a real outlet. Pasquino and Marforio in conversation. "Pasquinate".

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Internet Links for Unit 10:

DaVinci Code

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/davinci-code.htm
http://www.opusdei.us/art.php?p=6437
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/6194031/The-Lost-Symbol-and-The-
    Da-Vinci-Code-author-Dan-Browns-20-worst-sentences.html

Copernicus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-Copernicus.html
http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~zhu/ast210/helicentric.html
http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci102/lectures/copernicus.htm

Giordano Bruno

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03016a.htm
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/bruno.html
http://www.setileague.org/editor/brunoalt.htm
http://www.esotericarchives.com/bruno/home.htm

Galileo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-Galileo.html
http://galileo.rice.edu/
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/galileo.html

Borgias

http://www.mmdtkw.org/VBorgias.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Borgia
http://www.dragonrest.net/histories/lucrezia.html
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2741
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN097427220100109

Talking Statues

http://roma.andreapollett.com/S1/roma-c2.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_statues_of_Rome
http://www.romeartlover.it/Talking.html