Sforza Pallavicino: A Jesuit Life in Baroque Rome

Contents
	Acknowledgements
	Figures
	Note on the Editor
	Notes on the Contributors
	Abbreviations
	Note on the Translations
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Sforza Pallavicino: A Jesuit Life in Baroque Rome
	2
City, Church, and Court: Roman Culture in the Age of Sforza Pallavicino
	3
‘Before the Explosion of the Novatores’ Ideas’: Sforza Pallavicino Lincean
	4
‘The Great Friendship that Exists between Us’: The Correspondence between Sforza Pallavicino and Fabio Chigi (1629–1651)
	5
The Challenge of the Poem: The Classicism of I fasti sacri
	6
The ‘Paths of Parnassus’ in the Literary Thinking of Sforza Pallavicino
	7
Language and Idiom in Sforza Pallavicino’s Trattato dello stile e del dialogo
	8
‘With Ultramarine Hues’: Sforza Pallavicino and Baroque Poetics
	9
Pallavicino the Optimist
	10
Pallavicino’s God in Part and Whole
	11
Sforza Pallavicino and the Condemnation of Jansenius’s Five Propositions
	12
Writing the History of the Council of Trent
	13
Intellect and Imagination in Pallavicino’s Arte della perfezion cristiana: A Close Reading
	Bibliography
	Index Nominum