Inventing the Council inside the Apostolic Library: The Organization of Curial Erudition in Late Cinquecento RomeWalter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2021 M10 4 - 564 pages The book provides a detailed study of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and its interior decoration which today still remains inaccessible to the ordinary visit. Placing the history of the Vatican Library in the larger context of how erudition was administered and organized within the Early Modern Roman Curia, the book will also take into consideration how the Vaticana was used in contrast to other newly founded libraries. |
Contents
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2 The Ceremonial Blueprint of a Franciscan Pontificate | 73 |
3 The Popes Seraphs and the Landscape of Curial Erudition | 157 |
4 Creating a Sistine Workshop inside the Apostolic Palace | 201 |
5 Epilogue The Conspicuousness of Tridentine Theology in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | 379 |
Documents | 403 |
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