Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700

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Introduction
Gianvittorio Signorotto and Maria Antonietta Visceglia
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
Marco Pellegrini
2 Court and city in the ceremony of the possesso in the sixteenth century
Irene Fosi
3 ‘Rome, workshop of all the practices of the world’: from the letters of Cardinal Ferdinando de’ Medici to Cosimo I and Francesco I
Elena Fasano Guarini
4 The ‘world’s theatre’: the court of Rome and politics in the first half of the seventeenth century
Mario Rosa
5 Factions in the Sacred College in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Maria Antonietta Visceglia
6 The Secretariat of State as the pope’s special ministry
Antonio Menniti Ippolito
The cardinal-protectors of the crowns in the Roman curia during the first half of the seventeenth century: the case of France
olivier Poncet
8 The squadrone volante: ‘independent’ cardinals and European politics in the second half of the seventeenth century
Gianvittorio Signorotto
9 Roman avvisi: information and politics in the seventeenth century
Mario Infelise
10 Hegemony over the social scene and zealous popes (1676–1700)
Renata Ago
Index