The Curious Case of Ancona

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

Datos Bibliográficos

ID16617477
AutoresFrank Lacopo (0009-0007-2423-0133, Southeast Missouri State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen55
Número1-2
Páginas93-111
Fecha de publicación2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/731069
OpenAlexW4402830712
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias 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

Accommodation · Ancient history · Art · Humanities · Power (physics · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity