La giustizia del papa. Sudditi e tribunali nello Stato Pontificio in età moderna

In early modern Europe, justice was the key to public order and the state’s main pillar. The pope, though the head of the Church, was also a prince like any other, but his justice, as machinery and moral model, displayed the double nature of his rule. This book lays out the complex and sometime baffled endeavors of the pope’s magistrates and through a deep archival research and a lively narrative gives the flavor of the encounter between the pope’s assorted officials and magistrates – inquisitors, bishops, governors, and others – and women and men hauled before the papal law and courts.