Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700

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CONTENTS......Page 7
AB B REVIATIONS......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
A TURNING-POINT IN THE HISTORY OF THE FACTIONAL SYSTEM IN THE SACRED COLLEGE: THE POWER OF POPE AND CARDINALS IN THE AGE OF…......Page 18
INTRODUCTION......Page 41
THE MOMENTS OF PAPAL ENTHRONEMENT: CORONATION AND POSSESSO......Page 45
A MILITARY TRIUMPH: THE POSSESSO OF JULIUS II (1503 – 1513)......Page 50
LEO X: THE TRIUMPH OF THE AGE OF GOLD (1513 – 1521)......Page 53
FESTE FOR A ROMAN POPE: PAUL III (1536 – 1549)......Page 56
THE TRIUMPH OF ORDER: SIXTUS V (1585 – 1590)......Page 58
‘ROME, WORKSHOP OF ALL THE PRACTICES OF THE WORLD’: FROM THE LETTERS OF CARDINAL FERDINANDO DE’ MEDICI TO COSIMO I AND…......Page 63
THE \'WORLD\'S THEATRE\'......Page 88
\'REASON OF STATE\' AND THE SCRIPTURES......Page 91
TO \'KEEP FUTURE TURNS OF FORTUNE WELL IN MIND…\'......Page 101
FACTIONS IN THE SACRED COLLEGE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES......Page 109
THE SPECIFICITY OF THE ROMAN COURT......Page 113
Outside the court: ambassadors and agents of the European powers......Page 119
Inside the court: the cardinal-nephew, the papabili and the conclavists......Page 124
THE PRACTICE OF FACTIONS......Page 131
METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS......Page 142
CARDINAL – NEPHEW AND SECRETARY OF STATE......Page 144
The nephew and the pope’s secretary......Page 145
SECRETARY OF STATE AND CARDINAL – NEPHEW......Page 149
THE TIDE TURNS IN THE SECRETARY\'S FAVOUR......Page 160
THE CARDINAL-PROTECTORS OF THE CROWNS IN THE ROMAN CURIA DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: THE CASE OF FRANCE......Page 168
THE SQUADRONE VOLANTE : ‘INDEPENDENT’ CARDINALS AND EUROPEAN POLITICS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY......Page 187
THE BEGINNING......Page 190
THE YEARS OF UNCERTAINTY......Page 197
\'COMPRAR LOS CARDINALES\'......Page 200
THE CRISIS OF NEPOTISM......Page 204
APPROACHING FRANCE......Page 208
THE DISSOLUTION......Page 211
THE INNOCENTIAN REFORM......Page 216
ROMAN AVVISI : INFORMATION AND POLITICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY......Page 222
HEGEMONY OVER THE SOCIAL SCENE AND ZEALOUS POPES (1676 – 1700)......Page 239
INDEX......Page 257