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Tyranny under the Mantle of St Peter (Hardcover)
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Tyranny under the Mantle of St Peter (Hardcover)
Series: Late medieval & early modern studies, 5
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Pope Paul II (1464-1471) stands out amongst the later
fifteenth-century popes by virtue of his high concept of princely
sovereignty, and his vision of the papal temporal dominions as a
genuinely co-ordinated territorial state, an enduring public
entity. Inevitably he clashed with the Commune of Bologna, second
city of the Papal State, over which he naturally aspired to more
jurisdiction. The political vision of the Bolognese regime had a
narrowly local focus which precluded the sacrifice of Bolognese
independence in favour of integration into a wider territorial
entity, and sprang from a view of government as rightfully the
private preserve of a restricted oligarchic group, from the 1440s
consolidated in the magistracy of the 'Sixteen Reformers of the
Regime of Liberty'. Paul II regarded the regime of the Sixteen as a
'tyranny', and declared that he did not want such tyrannies
flourishing 'under the mantle of Saint Peter'. Paul II's
intervention in Bolognese affairs failed to open up the restricted
circle of the Bolognese oligarchy or to curb Bologna's independence
in the Papal State. It did nonetheless constitute a watershed in
the evolution of the Bolognese regime. Through political
miscalculation, it seems, Paul was led to institute a
constitutional modification which gave the long-developing
predominance of the Bentivoglio family an institutional basis and
opened the way for it to become more overtly 'signorial', replacing
one 'tyranny' with another. However, this aggravated a
long-standing tension in the regime between collegiality and
despotism, and paved the way for the eventual destruction of the
Bentivoglio predominance and the incorporation of Bologna into the
more co-ordinated Papal State of the sixteenth-century - a result
more consonant with Paul II's aims. The clash between Paul II and
Bologna is ultimately one between two opposed concepts of
government and 'the state'. The book's analysis of this clash wil.
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