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This volume collects nine essays on Maffeo Barberini – as prelate, cardinal, and pope – and some of his closest relatives, who benefited from his prominent role in the management of Church power. A shared feature of the research carried out by the leading scholars involved in this work is the use of numerous unpublished archival documents. The results not only shed new light on the personality of Maffeo Barberini, and the most influential men of his family and circle, both in politics and in the rhetorical efficacy of the arts they sponsored, but also make it possible to reformulate our historical view of several aspects of this enormously important papacy.
With contributions by Giovan Battista Fidanza, Chiara Cambrai, Vittoria Fiorelli, Irene Fosi, Massimo Carlo Giannini, Christine Maria Grafinger, Margaret Murata, Sergio Pagano, Aldo Roma and Valeria Vanesio.
With contributions by Giovan Battista Fidanza, Chiara Cambrai, Vittoria Fiorelli, Irene Fosi, Massimo Carlo Giannini, Christine Maria Grafinger, Margaret Murata, Sergio Pagano, Aldo Roma and Valeria Vanesio.
Price: $139.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
15 October 2026
ISBN: 9789004779259
Format: Hardcover
Isabella Aurora, Ph.D. (1997), is Head of the Historical Archives of the Vatican Library. She is the author of a monograph on medieval papal documents and of several articles on the relations between the Papal Curia and ecclesiastical and lay institutions during the Middle Ages.
Giovan Battista Fidanza, Ph.D. (2002), is Professor of Early Modern Art History at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He is the author of two monographs and numerous articles on seventeenth century art patronage in the Papal States published in leading international journals.
Giovan Battista Fidanza, Ph.D. (2002), is Professor of Early Modern Art History at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He is the author of two monographs and numerous articles on seventeenth century art patronage in the Papal States published in leading international journals.