Inquisition, Conversion, and Foreigners in Baroque Rome.

Intro -- Introduction. Winds of the North -- CHAPTER 1 -- Rome, a Patria Comune? -- 1 Rules and Procedures: Defining the Foreigner -- 2 Religious Identity -- 3 Protection, Integration, Exclusion: National Confraternities, Hospices and Colleges -- 4 Conversions and Reconquests: the Venerable English College in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- CHAPTER 2 -- Not Only Pilgrims: Reception and Conversion -- 1 Conversion and the Holy Years -- 2 Abjuring Heresy and Creating a New Identity -- 3 Clement VIII's "Womb of Paternal Compassion" -- 4 Rome, a Den of Spies -- CHAPTER 3 -- Cristoforo Gaspare Fischer: a Goldsmith, His Inheritance and the Inquisition -- 1 Cristoforo "Piscator aurifex in Urbe" -- 2 Between Nuremberg and Rome -- 3 Lengthy Negotiations and Powerful Intermediaries -- CHAPTER 4 -- Johannes Faber, "One of Italy's Seven Sages" -- 1 Johannes Faber's Roman Career -- 2 "Acquiring the Souls of Others" -- 3 Friends and Compatriots -- 4 Echoes of War -- 5 A Dubious Reputation -- CHAPTER 5 -- Guillaume Reboul: A Troublesome Convert -- 1 A Restless Pamphleteer -- 2 Rivalry and "Loathing" -- 3 Between Paris and Rome -- CHAPTER 6 -- Unsettling Mobility: Foreign Heretics in Italy -- 1 The Inquisitor's Doubts -- 2 Merchants in the Duchies of Mantua and Savoy -- 3 At the Border of the Papal States -- 4 From Leghorn to Florence by Way of Siena -- 5 Naples: a Port City -- CHAPTER 7 -- Between Intransigence and Tolerance -- 1 Alexander VII: New Conversion Politics -- 2 Difficult Control -- 3 A Cultural Conversion Project -- 4 The Heretic's Language -- CHAPTER 8 -- Petitions, Enclosures and Burials -- 1 Petitions and Intermediaries -- 2 Enclosing: the Ospizio Apostolico dei Convertendi -- 3 Burials -- 4 Onward to the Eighteenth Century -- 5 Exiled Princes, Traveling Princes -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Inquisition, Conversion, and Foreigners in Baroque Rome Irene Fosi provides a relevant account of the Roman Catholic strategies to convert heretical foreigners in the Eternal City and elsewhere, oscillating between repression and tolerance.

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