The Pope's men: the papal civil service in the Renaissance
This study of the Papal bureaucracy, at a time when the Pope was a powerful European ruler and his officials included many brilliant humanist scholars, examines the patronage network through which the system was manipulated and the struggle for control of it among the great Italian families.
| Résumé: | This study of the Papal bureaucracy, at a time when the Pope was a powerful European ruler and his officials included many brilliant humanist scholars, examines the patronage network through which the system was manipulated and the struggle for control of it among the great Italian families. |
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| ISBN: | 0191678392 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198219958.001.0001 |