Ruling Peacefully
Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Paul V. Murphy
Catholic University of America Press, 2007
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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