 | Ruling Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy Subjects: Gonzaga Ercole 1505–1563; Mantua (Italy) -- History -- 16th century; Mantua (Italy) -- Church history -- 16th century; Cardinals -- Italy -- Mantua -- Biography; Gonzaga family; Mantua (Italy) -- Biography; 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. |
