Ruling Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-century Italy

by PaulV.Murphy (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $90.02

  Raised in the splendid court of Mantua, wealthy even by the standards of Renaissance cardinals and an active participant in Italian and European politics, Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga (1505-1563) was in many respects a typical Renaissance prelate from a noble family. Thsi book provides a study of this influential and paradoxical figure.