Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700
This study describes power and politics in Rome and the role of the papacy in European politics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It attempts to overcome the traditional historiographical approach to the role of the papacy during this period by focusing on the actual mechanisms of power in the papal court—political, personal, spiritual, and ceremonial. Based on new research in Italian and other European archives, it charts the transition from a political to a primarily spiritual...
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An account of the role of the papacy in early modern European politics.
List of abbreviationsIntroduction11A turning-point in the history of the factional system in the Sacred College: the power of pope and cardinals in the age of Alexander VI82Court and city in the ceremony of the possesso in the sixteenth century313'Rome, workshop of all the practices of the world': from the letters of Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici to Cosimo I and Francesco I534The 'world's theatre': the court of Rome and politics in the first half of the seventeenth century785Factions in the Sacred College in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries996The Secretariat of State as the pope's special ministry1327The cardinal-protectors of the crowns in the Roman curia during the first half of the seventeenth century: the case of France1588The squadrone volante: 'independent' cardinals and European politics in the second half of the seventeenth century1779Roman avvisi: information and politics in the seventeenth century21210Hegemony over the social scene and zealous popes (1676-1700)229Index247
