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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Henry VIII Divorce Plea Reproduced

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-06-16_116394451.html

[ANSA] 16 June 2009--An Italian publisher has produced a scaled-down replica of the massive petition written by English lords in 1530 to try to persuade the pope to let Henry VIII get a divorce.

The Venice-based publisher, Scrinium, was given unprecedented access to the Causa Anglica letter which has been kept in the Vatican's secret archive for almost 500 years.

Scrinium's replica will be unveiled at Rome's Palazzo della Cancellertia, the former papal chancellery, on June 23 - the anniversary of the eve of Henry's incoronation on June 24, 1509.

The company used the skills of Venetian glass-workers to reproduce the 85 seals on the letter.

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