My Italian Secret

Top studio, touring and recording artist, Jeff Scheetz cooked up five essential formulas for busting out of that proverbial rut. Spinning your wheels with those same old pentatonic licks? No worries … sprinkle a little of Jeff's "secret sauce" into your blues-rock bag for ear-to-ear grins! Scheetz travels the world over demonstrating his "secret sauce" in private standing-room-only clinics. The collection of blues-rock video guitar lessons in Jeff's Blues Rock: Secret Sauce course equips you with five essential concepts and techniques that you can apply in any blues-rock setting.

Based on a wealth of documents long buried in the Vatican archives, Prisoner of the Vatican tells the story of the Church's secret attempt to block the unification of Italy and seize control - not in ancient times, but in the late nineteenth century. For more than fifty years, the pope was a self-imposed prisoner within the Vatican walls, planning to flee Italy, to return only as the restored ruler of Rome and the Papal States. The scheme to dismantle the newborn Italian nation involved not only the cardinals and the Curia but also attempts to exploit the rivalries among France, Germany, Austria, Spain, and England. Kertzer brings to light an untold drama played out among fascinating characters: Pope Pius IX, the most important pontiff in modern history; King Victor Emmanuel, working behind the backs of his own ministers; the dashing national hero Garibaldi; France's ill-starred Napoleon III, and many more