Ebook: Ruling Peacefully : Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Author: Paul V. Murphy
- Tags: Gonzaga Ercole -- 1505-1563., Gonzaga family., Cardinals -- Italy -- Mantua -- Biography., Mantua (Italy) -- History -- 16th century., Mantua (Italy) -- Church history -- 16th century., Mantua (Italy) -- Biography.
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
- City: Washington, United States
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
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