Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 A turning-point in the history of the factional system in the Sacred College: the power of pope and cardinals in the age of Alexander VI
- 2 Court and city in the ceremony of the possesso in the sixteenth century
- 3 ‘Rome, workshop of all the practices of the world’: from the letters of Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici to Cosimo I and Francesco I
- 4 The ‘world's theatre’: the court of Rome and politics in the first half of the seventeenth century
- 5 Factions in the Sacred College in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 6 The Secretariat of State as the pope's special ministry
- 7 The cardinal-protectors of the crowns in the Roman curia during the first half of the seventeenth century: the case of France
- 8 The squadrone volante: ‘independent’ cardinals and European politics in the second half of the seventeenth century
- 9 Roman avvisi: information and politics in the seventeenth century
- 10 Hegemony over the social scene and zealous popes (1676–1700)
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ITALIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 July 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 A turning-point in the history of the factional system in the Sacred College: the power of pope and cardinals in the age of Alexander VI
- 2 Court and city in the ceremony of the possesso in the sixteenth century
- 3 ‘Rome, workshop of all the practices of the world’: from the letters of Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici to Cosimo I and Francesco I
- 4 The ‘world's theatre’: the court of Rome and politics in the first half of the seventeenth century
- 5 Factions in the Sacred College in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 6 The Secretariat of State as the pope's special ministry
- 7 The cardinal-protectors of the crowns in the Roman curia during the first half of the seventeenth century: the case of France
- 8 The squadrone volante: ‘independent’ cardinals and European politics in the second half of the seventeenth century
- 9 Roman avvisi: information and politics in the seventeenth century
- 10 Hegemony over the social scene and zealous popes (1676–1700)
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ITALIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
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- Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492–1700 , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002