Una controversia alla vigilia di Trento sulle prerogative del potere imperiale. Giovanni Girolamo Albani contro gli attacchi di Calvino e Lutero all’ Admonitio paterna di Paolo III
2020; Université catholique de Louvain; Volume: 115; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1484/j.rhe.5.120141
ISSN2294-1088
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Legal Studies and Society
ResumoIn the summer of 1544, pope Paul III wrote to Charles V, trying to convince the emperor not to convene a national Germanic council, open to participation by the protestants. This Admonitio paterna had vast resonance in the Protestant world. In March 1545, the complete text of the papal breve was published by John Calvin, together with his commentary; in the same month, Martin Luther published a violent response to pope Farnese. Revising an erroneous bibliographical tradition, the present essay proves that the treatise Pro oppugnata Romani Pontificis dignitate published by Giovanni Girolamo Albani in 1547-but written in 1545-is the controversialist reaction to Calvin and Luther’s arguments. The dispute concerned essentially the emperors’ right to decide about religious issues, and one of the main polemical themes was the historical example of Constantine the Great, who was for both sides the prototype of the Christian sovereign. This controversy, thus, is important not only to understand the historical context of the months before the Council of Trent, but also to examine the deep fracture that divided Catholics and Protestants on the conception of secular and imperial power.
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