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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Marie-Louise Rodén. Church Politics in Seventeenth-Century Rome: Cardinal Decio Azzolino, Queen Christina of Sweden, and the Squadrone Volante. (Stockholm Studies in History, number 60.) Stockholm: Almqvist&Wiskell International. 2000. Pp. 327. 286 KR.

Decio Azzolino was "a man of great warmth" (p. 302). This may seem a surprising conclusion about the Machiavelli—on both the practical and theoretical levels—of the seventeenth-century College of Cardinals. It also points to the hybrid nature of this book by Marie-Louise Rodén: sometimes biography, sometimes detailed study of the workings of the papal bureaucracy, and sometimes even more detailed investigation of papal politics. The nominal subject was also a prolific writer, author of an enormous manuscript history of the papacy, a handbook on politics, and an opinion against the canonization of Robert Bellarmine (the rather ill-fitting subject of the second to last chapter), all of which receive attention. Finally, one of the longest sections treats Azzolino's enduring relationship with Queen Christina of Sweden. . . .

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