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Ruling Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy. By Paul V. Murphy. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007. xxi + 290 pp. $79.95 cloth. | Church History | Cambridge Core.
Ruling Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Book. Paul V. Murphy. 2011. Published by: The Catholic University of America Press. View. summary. Ruling Peacefully provides the first in-depth study of this influential and paradoxical figure.
- Paul V. Murphy
- 2007
Ercole Gonzaga (23 November 1505 – 2 March 1563) was an Italian Cardinal. Biography. Born in Mantua, he was the son of the Marquis Francesco Gonzaga and Isabella d'Este, and nephew of Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga. He studied philosophy at Bologna under Pietro Pomponazzi, and later took up theology.
The career of one such figure, Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga (1505-63) of Mantua, highlights this combination of worldliness and reform. This article addresses how Gonzaga's awareness of his place in society and the demands of honor for maintaining that place encouraged his patrician reform activity at least as much as it might have hindered him.
Ruling Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007. xxiv + 290 pp. index. append. tbls. bibl. $79.95. ISBN: 978–0–8132–1478–8.
- Elisabeth G. Gleason
- 2008
Ruling Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007. xxiv + 290 append. tbls. bibl. $79.95. ISBN: 978–0–8132–1478–8. Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga is an attractive but ambiguous figure in century Italian religious history.
Sep 3, 2014 · The four legates, Ercole Gonzaga, Girolamo Seripando, Ludovico Simonetta, and Stanislaus Hosius, formulated twelve reform articles that were to be discussed by the general congregation in early April, with a view to producing decrees for the reform of the church.
