by Mary Hollingsworth · Apollo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781800244740
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«Conclave 1559» is Mary Hollingsworth's historical essay on the 1559 papal election, published by Apollo in paperback (320 pages, in English).
In 1559, after the death of Pope Paul IV, forty-seven cardinals are locked inside the Vatican. Mary Hollingsworth reconstructs the longest conclave of the sixteenth century from the account books of Ippolito d'Este and shows how tensions between factions and the ambitions of France and Spain shaped the election.
This study by Mary Hollingsworth was first published in 2013 under the title «Conclave»; this edition dates from 2023.
For readers interested in the history of the Catholic Church, the Italian Renaissance, and the political intrigues of the sixteenth century.
Elizabeth Mary Hollingsworth is a British historian who specialises in the history of medieval Italy.
