The Curious Case of Ancona

“Levantines,” Accommodation, and the Exigencies of Papal Power in Adriatic Italy, 1532–1555

Dados Bibliográficos

ID16617477
AutoresFrank Lacopo (0009-0007-2423-0133, Southeast Missouri State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume55
Fascículo1-2
Páginas93-111
Data de publicação2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/731069
OpenAlexW4402830712
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas13

This article investigates the extent and limits of papal power to coerce non-Catholics’ conversion to Catholicism in the Papal States’ Adriatic port city of Ancona. With a long history as a crossroads of Mediterranean religions and cultures, Ancona hosted a substantial population of non-Catholic merchants into the sixteenth century. Since commercial diasporas were crucial to the financial success of the Papal States, Popes Paul III (1534–49) and Julius III (1550–55) took an accommodating approach to religious nonconformity in Ancona. Ancona’s lay elite, on the other hand, sponsored proselytization without papal support immediately after the first sessions of the Council of Trent, showing the extent to which local confessional impulses could diverge from papal agendas in the Papal States. Owing to multiple economic, political, and geographical contingencies, Ancona was both a nexus of commercial activity and a periphery of papal power

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