Sforza Pallavicino

Maarten Delbeke holds the Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. He researches and teaches the history and theory of art and architecture in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present, and is active as an architecture critic.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNote on the EditorNotes on the ContributorsAbbreviationsNote on the Translations1 Sforza Pallavicino: A Jesuit Life in Baroque RomeMaarten Delbeke2 City, Church, and Court: Roman Culture in the Age of Sforza PallavicinoMaria Pia Donato3 ‘Before the Explosion of the Novatores’ Ideas’: Sforza Pallavicino LinceanFederica Favino4 ‘The Great Friendship that Exists between Us’: The Correspondence between Sforza Pallavicino and Fabio Chigi (1629–1651)Irene Fosi5 The Challenge of the Poem: The Classicism of I fasti sacriSilvia Apollonio6 The ‘Paths of Parnassus’ in the Literary Thinking of Sforza PallavicinoPietro Giulio Riga7 Language and Idiom in Sforza Pallavicino’s Trattato dello stile e del dialogoEraldo Bellini8 ‘With Ultramarine Hues’: Sforza Pallavicino and Baroque PoeticsJon R. Snyder9 Pallavicino the OptimistSven K. Knebel10 Pallavicino’s God in Part and WholeAnselm Ramelow11 Sforza Pallavicino and the Condemnation of Jansenius’s Five PropositionsChiara Catalano12 Writing the History of the Council of TrentStefan Bauer13 Intellect and Imagination in Pallavicino’s Arte della perfezion cristiana: A Close ReadingAlessandro MetlicaBibliographyIndex Nominum