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What was the Roman Inquisition? How did inquisitors operate in the Italian society of the 16th and 17th century? In an attempt to answer these questions, the author analyses the inquisitors' familia , the Court of Faith's large group of assistants. In the light of rich unpublished records, this research is the first to reconstruct the events around the Holy Office's "staff", which consisted of vicars, notaries, lawyers, consultants, policemen, bodyguards and many others. The publication deals with the issues related to these officers, their geographic distribution and the brotherhoods used for their classification. Following this, the analysis shifts to the privileges enjoyed by the members of these "families", and the often heinous abuses they committed, demonstrating how the Inquisition became an element of social and moral disorder whenever its authority was questioned.

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What was the Roman Inquisition? How did inquisitors operate in the Italian society of the 16th and 17th century? In an attempt to answer these questions, the author analyses the inquisitors' familia , the Court of Faith's large group of assistants. In the light of rich unpublished records, this research is the first to reconstruct the events around the Holy Office's "staff", which consisted of vicars, notaries, lawyers, consultants, policemen, bodyguards and many others. The publication deals with the issues related to these officers, their geographic distribution and the brotherhoods used for their classification. Following this, the analysis shifts to the privileges enjoyed by the members of these "families", and the often heinous abuses they committed, demonstrating how the Inquisition became an element of social and moral disorder whenever its authority was questioned.

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"Giovanni Morone (1509-80) ebbe un'esistenza in apparenza paradossale: due volte legato papale al concilio di Trento - che chiuse nel 1563 salvandolo dal fallimento cui pareva destinato - fu oggetto di gravi accuse di eresia sfociate in due processi inquisitoriali voluti dai papi-inquisitori del suo tempo, Paolo IV (che lo rinchiuse per oltre due anni in Castel Sant'Angelo) e Pio V. Solo la stima e l'appoggio dei sovrani asburgici (il re di Spagna Filippo II e l'imperatore Ferdinando I) gli permisero di sfuggire alla condanna e di tornare a tenere le redini dei principali avvenimenti coevi: dall'alleanza che portò alla battaglia di Lepanto alla crisi della repubblica di Genova. Impareggiabile diplomatico formatosi nella Milano degli Sforza, protagonista dei colloqui di religione nella Germania sconvolta da Lutero, amico di Vittoria Colonna e committente di Michelangelo, vescovo riformatore, Morone fu uomo di grande prestigio europeo, la cui memoria è stata tuttavia riproposta solo in chiave di esemplare prelato cattolico, rimuovendo i drammatici conflitti interni alla gerarchia ecclesiastica che segnarono la sua vita ed ebbero un peso decisivo nel delineare l'identità della Chiesa cattolica nella lunga età della Controriforma." --

Cardinals --- Counter-Reformation --- Inquisition --- Morone, Giovanni Girolamo