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Ruling peacefully : Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and patrician reform in sixteenth-century Italy / Paul V. Murphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Paul V. (Paul Vincent), 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gonzaga, Ercole, 1505-1563.
- Gonzaga, Ercole.
- Gonzaga family.
- Cardinals--Italy--Mantua--Biography.
- Cardinals.
- Mantua (Italy)--History--16th century.
- Mantua (Italy).
- Mantua (Italy)--Church history--16th century.
- Mantua (Italy)--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D. C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ruling Peacefully provides the first in-depth study of this influential and paradoxical figure. Gonzaga emerges as a complex personality whose interests as the representative of a northern Italian ruling family could just as easily lead him to support reform in the Catholic Church as to hinder it.
- Contents:
- The intellectual and cultural formation of a cardinal
- Gonzaga, reform, and the office of Bishop
- Reform in the Diocese of Mantua
- Gonzaga and the "Spirituali"
- The regency in Mantua
- Gonzaga and the Council of Trent.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1633-8
- OCLC:
- 427507151
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