The Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509-1580): Between Council and Inquisition

270 Pages·2012·2.271 MB·English

by  Adam Patrick Robinson

The Career of Cardinal
Giovanni Morone (1509–1580)
Between Council and Inquisition
Adam Patrick Robinson
The Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509–1580)
For Gemma, Isabella and Benedict
The Career of Cardinal
Giovanni Morone
(1509–1580)
Between Council and Inquisition
AdAM PATrICk roBInson
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robinson, Adam Patrick.
The Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509–1580: Between Council and
Inquisition.
1. Morone, Giovanni, 1509–1580. 2. Morone, Giovanni, 1509–1580 – Trials,
litigation, etc. 3. Catholic Church – Bishops – Biography. 4. Cardinals – Italy
– Biography. 5. Catholic Church – Italy – History – 16th century. 6. Council
of Trent (1545–1563)
I. Title
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robinson, Adam Patrick.
The Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509–1580): Between Council
and Inquisition / Adam Patrick robinson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
1. Morone, Giovanni, 1509–1580. 2. Cardinals – Italy – Modena. 3. Catholic
Church – Italy – Modena – History – 16th century. 4. Modena (Italy) Church
history – 16th century. I. Title.
BX4705.M72517r63 2012
282.092–dc23
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IsBn 9781409417835 (hbk)
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III
Contents
Abbreviations vii
Brief Chronology xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
1 Early Life and Career, 1509–1540 15
2 Morone and Contarini: Regensburg and the Accademia
Crisis, 1541/1542 37
3 Morone, Pole and the Spirituali, 1542–1549 59
4 Spirituali vs Intransigenti: Morone under Suspicion,
1550–1559 87
5 Morone, Pius IV and the Resumption of the Council,
December 1559–March 1563 111
6 Legate at Trent: Innsbruck and the Decree on Orders,
April–July 1563 137
7 Marriage, Reform, Conclusion and Aftermath of the
Council, July 1563–December 1564 163
8 Conclave and Final Years, 1566–1580 193
Conclusion 215
Bibliography 229
Index 249
ThIS pAge hAS Been lefT BlAnk InTenTIonAlly
Abbreviations
ADSPPM Atti e memorie della deputazione di storia patria
per le antiche provincie modenesi
AHR American Historical Review
ASV Archivio Segreto Vaticano
BAV Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
BL British Library
CHR Catholic Historical Review
Constant Gustave Constant (ed.), La Légation du Cardinal
Morone près de l’empereur et le Concile du
Trente, avril–décembre 1563 (Paris: Librairie
Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1922)
CRP Thomas Mayer, The Correspondence of Reginald
Pole (4 volumes to date, Aldershot: Ashgate,
2002–)
CS Critica storica
CSP Calendar of State Papers
CT Concilium Tridentinum. Diariorum, Actorum,
Epistularum, Tractatuum, nova collection
(13 volumes to date, ed. Görres Gesellschaft,
Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1901ff.)
DBI Dizionario biografico degli Italiani (Rome:
Istituto per la Enciclopedia Italiana, 1960ff.)
Dittrich, HJ Franz Dittrich (ed.), ‘Die Nuntiaturberichte
G. Morone’s vom Reichstage zu Regensburg
1541’, Historisches Jahrbuch der Görres
Gesellschaft, IV (1883): pp. 395–472 and
618–673
Dittrich, NBGM Franz Dittrich (ed.), Nuntiaturberichte
Giovanni Morones vom deutschen Königschofe
1539–1540 (Quellen und Forschungen, 1/1,
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Dumeige et al.,
Latran V et Trente Olivier de la Brosse, O.P., Joseph Lecler, S.J.,
Henri Holstein, S.J. and Charles Lefebvre,
Latran V et Trente (Histoire des conciles
œcuméniques, Tome X, under the direction of
viii ABBREVIATIONS
Gervais Dumeige S.J., Paris: Éditions de l’Orante,
Paris, 1975)
Dumeige et al.,
Trente Joseph Lecler S.J., Henri Holstein S.J.,
Pierre Adnès S.J. and Charles Lefebvre, Le concile
de Trente 1551–1563 (Histoire des conciles
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Gasparo Contarini Gigliola Fragnito, Gasparo Contarini: un
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HJ Heythrop Journal
Inquisizione romana Massimo Firpo (in conjunction with Dario
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Giovanni Morone (1509-1580) e il suo processo
d’ eresia. Nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata
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JMH Journal of Modern History
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NB Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland nebst
ergänzenden Aktenstücken (Various, Preussisches
historisches Institut Rom, 1892ff.).
Pastor Ludwig von Pastor, The History of the Popes from
the Close of the Middle Ages (40 volumes,
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and E. F. Peeler, London: Kegan Paul, Trench,
Trübner, 1891–1953)
PC Massimo Firpo and Dario Marcatto (eds),
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(1557–1567), Edizione Critica (2 volumes in 4,
Vatican City: Archivio Segreto Vaticano, 1998–
2000)
PM Massimo Firpo and Dario Marcatto (eds),
Il processo inquisitoriale del Cardinal Giovanni
Morone. Edizione Critica (6 volumes, Rome:
Istituto storico italiano per l’età moderna e
contemporanea, 1981–1995)
RSI Rivista storica italiana
RSLR Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa
SCJ Sixteenth Century Journal
Speranze Susanna Peyronel Rambaldi, Speranze e crisi
nel cinquecento Modenese: Tensioni religiose e
vita cittadina ai tempi di Giovanni Morone
(Milan: Franco Angeli, 1979)
Šusta J. Šusta (ed.), Die römische Kurie und das Konzil
von Trient unter Pius IV (4 volumes, Vienna:
Hölder, 1904–1914)
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Ecumenical Councils (2 volumes, London and
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