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This book presents a critical edition of a collection of liturgical manuscripts that theAugustinian friar Onofrio Panvinio (1530–1568) assembled in the 1560s for the CardinalAlessandro Farnese as well as for Hans Jakob Fugger in Augsburg. Onofrio Panvinio isprimarily known for his antiquarian studies about ancient Rome and for his editionof Bartolomeo Platina’s Lives of the Popes. His preoccupation with the Roman rite,however, remains until today largely unnoticed by modern scholarship. This editionof Panvinio’s Vetusti aliquot rituales libri highlights his interests in the developmentof Roman liturgy during the last sessions of the Council of Trent (1545–1563) by presentingthe various documentary as well as cultural layers of Panvinio’s collection ofRoman ritual manuscripts.

The book provides a detailed study of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and its interior decoration which today still remains inaccessible to the ordinary visit. Placing the history of the Vatican Library in the larger context of how erudition was administered and organized within the Early Modern Roman Curia, the book will also take into consideration how the Vaticana was used in contrast to other newly founded libraries.

Innerhalb der Forschung mangelt es immer noch an einer kritischen Neuauswertung der Arbeiten des Oratorianers und Kardinals Cesare Baronios sowie seiner kirchlichen Laufbahn innerhalb der römischen Kurie. Deshalb geht es in der hier dargelegten Untersuchung darum, eine vertiefte, auf die verfügbaren Quellen gestützte und die historischen Disziplinen sowie Methoden des 21. Jahrhunderts bündelnde Geschichte von Liturgie, Zeremoniell und Kirchenhistoriographie der katholischen Kirche während der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts vorzulegen. Das Konzil von Trient (1545–1563) schuf die Grundlagen für eine Reform, mit welcher die Kurie die liturgischen Bücher bearbeiten und mit Hilfe derselben ihre eigene Zeremonialkultur neu organisieren konnte. Auf diese Neufassung des Kurienzeremoniells zwischen den Pontifikaten Pius’ V. und Gregors’ XIII. soll der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung gelegt werden, indem Kirchen-, Politik-, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte zu einer Einheit verschmelzen. Der Beitrag Baronios steht in engstem, aber bisher noch kaum bemerktem Zusammenhang mit der Entstehung seiner zwölfbändigen "Annales Ecclesiastici", mit denen die katholische Kirchengeschichtsschreibung für Jahrhunderte gültige Referenztexte vorlegte.

Guglielmo Sirleto has generally been acknowledged as a crucial contributor to defending the papacy’s claims over St Peter’s primacy, including the apostle’s legendary arrival to Rome before his martyrdom. Sirleto established himself as a pivotal prelate, who assisted Pope Paul IV in rearranging the ceremonial apparatus for the solemn celebrations of the Cathedra Petri (St Peter’s Throne). Scholars, however, were unable to properly examine his De praestantia basilicae Vaticanae, because the manuscripts of this discourse were never completely identified. The edition of this treatise will therefore primarily provide a reconstruction of Sirleto’s working methods in readjusting the ceremonial solemnities prescribed for the feast day of the Cathedra Petri according to Curial Ceremony. The second discourse concerns, on the other hand, a description of the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore on the Esquiline Hill, which Sirleto composed for the Cardinal Bishop of Milan, Carlo Borromeo. In contrast to the edition of the first discourse in this volume, the Trattato sopra la chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore is presented according to the correspondence between Borromeo and Sirleto.

A critical edition of Guglielmo Sirleto’s unpublished letters is still missing. The partial transcriptions of this large collection of epistles in the volumes of the Concilium Tridentinum by Gottfried Buschbell only provided partial transcriptions relating to Cardinal Marcello Cervini’s legation during the Council of Trent betwen 1545 and 1547.While scholars have recognized Sirleto’s assistance to Cardinal Cervini’s Tridentine exploitations and compositions of various critical decrees, the larger context of his entry into the household and Roman enterprises oft he powerful cardinal editore Cervini remain largely obscure. The following volume of registered letters corresponding to the first volume of the edited correspondence aims at complementing the edited volume of epistles by including annotated editions of largely unknown manuscripts by distinguished Roman ecclesiastical officeholders, such as the papal librarian Agostino Steuco, addressing the theological issues discussed at the Dialogues of Religin in Germany and which were later reprossed in the published first editions printed by Cardinal Cervini’s Latin and Greek presses in Rome.The volume of registered letters provides a useful instrument in not only offering concisive descriptions of the edited collection of epistles, but offers also valuable materials for future scholarship in reconstructing the intellectual atmosphere at the Roman Curia and Cardinal Marcello Cervini’s agency in strategically manipulating this new group of theological as well as ecclesiastical scholars.

With Charles V’s Imperial Coronation in 1530 in Bologna, the relationship between imperial and ecclesiastical government was reconfigured according to the Emperor’s sovereign capacities in administering the temporal concerns alongside the development of ecclesiastical affairs. This consolidation of Charles V’s imperial government represented a major challenge in respect to the Roman Curia’s insights regarding the contemporary theological conceptions contesting Roman ecclesiastical government. Following the election of Pope Paul III in 1534 and the creation of a Consilium de emendanda ecclesiae two years later, this great issue was to be principally resolved by a commission of cardinals and Curial prelates in anticipation of a general Church council that was to resolve the theological disparities between Catholic and Protestant positions regarding on ecclesiology. The Consilium thus served as a consulting entity within the Roman Curia concerning Pope Paul III’s ambitions for calling a Church council. Contrary to previous scholarship, this study demonstrates how this particular commission acted in following a Curial program of neutralizing the papal strategies of pacifying the Emperor Charles V and King Francis I. This reinterpretation of the Consilium de emendanda ecclesiae and of its members is presented through the conflicting relationship between the Roman Curia and Pope Paul III regarding the calling of a general Church council that was to instill a reorganization of Roman ecclesiastical government. To demonstrate this overlooked dynamic between papal and curial administration of ecclesiastical government, the study reconstructs the emergence of a novel climate of Curial ecclesiastic erudition that was starting to be formed within the environments of Cardinal Marcello Cervini and his important printing enterprises. The most significant member of Cardinal Cervini’s initiatives was the Greek scholar and later Cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto. While various scholars have been keen in recognizing Sirleto’s contributions to various shapes and forms of the curial administration of the Roman Church, his career and his literary production as a curial prelate and one of the most important curial counselors in the entourage of various pontiffs concerning the development of Roman ecclesiastical government during the sixteenth century still remains a large desideratum in modern scholarship. In placing Sirleto and his personal career within the labyrinthine structures of the Roman Curia and of papal ecclesiastical power at the center of the study, the book proposes a novel interpretation not only of how the Curia acted as a heterogenous entity in the overall composition of Roman ecclesiastical government, but how the sapientissimo Calabro Guglielmo Sirleto evolved in establishing a system of administering the various ecclesiastical affairs of the Roman Church through the manipulation as well as adjustment of Roman theological thought in the late Cinquecento. By placing Sirleto and his career within the labyrinthine structures of the Roman Curia and papal power, this book offers a novel interpretation of the Curia not only as a heterogeneous entity within Roman ecclesiastical governance but also as a system shaped by Sirleto’s strategic administration of ecclesiastical affairs. Through his manipulation and adaptation of Roman theological thought in the late Cinquecento, Sirleto played a pivotal role in defining ecclesiastical governance. This book builds upon the preceding project’s exploration of political thought in Roman ecclesiastical governance, analyzing how theological discourse was controlled and circulated through the machinery of the Roman Curia. The second part of the trilogy Holy Family and Sacred Palace thus fundamentally rethinks previous contributions made towards Early Modern political thought after Quentin Skinner’s momentous Foundations of Modern Political Thought, and proposes, for the first time, a major interpretive model for understanding ecclesiastical political thought.

A critical edition of Guglielmo Sirleto’s unpublished letters is still missing. The partial transcriptions of this large collection of epistles in the volumes of the Concilium Tridentinum by Gottfried Buschbell only provided partial transcriptions relating to Cardinal Marcello Cervini’s legation during the Council of Trent betwen 1545 and 1547. While scholars have recognized Sirleto’s assistance to Cardinal Cervini’s Tridentine exploitations and compositions of various critical decrees, the larger context of his entry into the household and Roman enterprises oft he powerful cardinal editore Cervini remain largely obscure. The following critical edition of Guglielmo Sirleto’s first letters, including other relevant correspondence between Sirleto’s arrival in Rome around 1539 and Marcello Cervini’s departure for Trent in 1545 by distinguished Roman ecclesiastical officeholders within the papal Curia, aims at demonstrating how the collaboration between Cervini’s enterpreneurial endeavors of his printing presses as well as his coordination of important theological brokers during the Dialogues of Religion in Germany, especially at the Diet of Regensburg in 1541, and Sirleto’s own ecclesiastical career emerged from a considerable failure at providing an authentic response to Lutheran as well as Protestant theological challenges. The first volume of the edited correspondence between Sirleto and one of his first most important patron as well as ardent supporters, the Cardinal of Santa Croce Marcello Cervini, offers various hitherto largely disregarded original documents that allow it to perceive Guglielmo Sirleto’s first years in Rome as a result from a larger Curial failure in affirming its ecclesiological status and significance towards Lutheran and Protestant theological challenges.