Inside Angels & Demons: The Story Behind the International Bestseller, The Unauthorized Guide to the Bestselling Novel and the Blockbuster Movie

Set against the backdrop of beautiful Baroque Rome, Inside Angels & Demons: The Unauthorized Guide to the International Bestseller takes you inside the Vatican to see how the process of conclave and papal selection really works.Readers explore the world of Bernini, master artist of the Baroque era, and the secret meanings behind his symbolism...what really happened in the trial of Galileo...the impact of the Illuminati, the Freemasons, and other secret societies on European and American history...the real state of the art anti-matter technology...the centuries-old debate between science and religion.Millions of readers want to separate fact from fiction. This book teases apart the real and the imagined within the historical labyrinth of conspiracies, cover-ups, messages encoded in famous artworks, secrets societies, and mystical knowledge. Inside Angels & Demons: The Unauthorized Guide to the International Bestseller is must reading for anyone fascinated with Dan Brown’s historical mysteries. Contents 8 Editor's Note 12 Introduction: Where The Da Vinci Code Began 16 1. The Vatican: An Insider's View 26 Conclave 101: The Past, Present, and Future of the Papal Elections 28 Angels, Demons, and the Papacy 46 Pontiffs Past, Present, and Future 56 Who Is Buried in St. Peter's Tomb? 64 Beyond the Grave 65 "Upon This Rock" 72 The Vatican in the Era of Galileo and Bernini 78 The Church Since Galileo: Problems Then Are Still Problems Now 87 2. Galileo: The Pious Heretic 96 Galileo Opened the Skies to the Mind of Man 97 On the Copernican Trail 102 Galileo: Right Message at the Wrong Time 115 The Myth of Galileo 133 Blind Ambition and Sincere Piety 147 Avenging Galileo 157 3. Of Conspiracies and Conspirators: The Illuminati Illuminated 164 On the Trail of the Illuminati: A Journalist's Search for the"Conspiracy That Rules the World" 165 The Fact-Fiction Reversal: The Illuminati, the New World Order, and Other Conspiracies 179 An Occultist's Guide to the Assassins and the Illuminati 193 Secrets of the Tomb: Inside America's Most Powerful—and Politically Connected—Secret Society 206 "I Didn't Go Looking for the Illuminati; They Came Looking for Me" 215 4. Two Windows on the Same Universe? The Science vs. Religion Discussion 226 Leonardo Vetra's Bookshelf 227 Worshipping in the Church of Einstein, or How I Found Fischbeck's Rule 230 Is There a Need for a Divine Designer? 241 Holy Wars 245 Religion—the Mental Equivalent of a Computer Virus 254 The God Gene An Interview with Dean Hamer 266 Cognitive Science Takes On Religion: A New Approach to an Age-Old Question 275 Adam vs. Atom 279 5. Robert Langdon's Rome: Art and Architecture 288 A Bernini Expert Reflects on Dan Brown's Use of the Baroque Master 289 Bernini and His Angels 308 The Magical and Mythical in Bernini's Sculpture 317 The Secrets of the Vatican Library 331 It Isn't So Secret After All 331 A Scholar Visits the Vatican Library 339 Bernini's Symbology 344 Rome: City of Angels and Demonic Imaginings 363 "Let Angels Guide You on Your Lofty Quest" 372 6. The Science and Technology 378 Death Comes to the Cardinals: A Forensic Expert on Murder, Mayhem, and Survival 379 Eyeball to Eyeball: The Use of Biometrics 389 The Technology Toys 399 Science as an Evolving Narrative: From Galileo to the Big Bang 414 Day Without Yesterday: Georges Lemaître and the Big Bang 426 Antimatter Matters 432 Untangling Dan Brown's Entanglement Theory 439 7. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown, and the Art of Fictionalizing "Fact" 454 The Plot Holes and Intriguing Details 455 What's in a Name? 486 The Secrets of Ambigrams 492 Adverbs & Demons: Just How Good Is the Former English Teacher's English? 496 Novelistic Metaphysics 503 Angels & Demons and the Emerging Literary Genre of Art Fiction 511 Contributors 520 Acknowledgments 534 Set against the backdrop of beautiful Baroque Rome, Inside Angels & The Unauthorized Guide to the International Bestseller takes you inside the Vatican to see how the process of conclave and papal selection really works. Readers explore the world of Bernini, master artist of the Baroque era, and the secret meanings behind his symbolism...what really happened in the trial of Galileo...the impact of the Illuminati, the Freemasons, and other secret societies on European and American history...the real state of the art anti-matter technology...the centuries-old debate between science and religion. Millions of readers want to separate fact from fiction. This book teases apart the real and the imagined within the historical labyrinth of conspiracies, cover-ups, messages encoded in famous artworks, secrets societies, and mystical knowledge. Inside Angels & The Unauthorized Guide to the International Bestseller is must reading for anyone fascinated with Dan Browns historical mysteries. Presents a series of essays which critique the bestselling novel "Angels & Demons," examining various elements of the story to separate fictitious literary creations from historical facts of Christianity during the Baroque era

an Unauthorized Tie-in To The Ron Howard Blockbuster Movie angels & Demons, Based On The Dan Brown Bestseller, Starring Tom Hanks And Naomi Watts, To Be A Major Motion Picture Releasing In May 2009

'Previously published as : Secrets of Angels & Demons, in 2004 by CDS Books.'-- T.p. verso.