Il nipotismo di Roma, or, The History of the Popes Nephews: from the time of Sixtus IV. to the death of the last Pope, Alexander VIILeti, Gregorio
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Il nipotismo di Roma, or, The History of the Popes Nephews: from the time of Sixtus IV. to the death of the last Pope, Alexander VII
Leti, Gregorio
Nepotism; Papacy -- Early works to 1800; Papacy -- History
_IN which is discoursed_, _of all the good and ill that the_ Pope’s
_Nephews have done the Church ever since_ Sixtus _the Fourth_. _Of the
Church of Christ_, _compared to a Field_. _Of those that first bestowed
Riches upon the Church_. _Of the insatiability of the_ Nipotismo _in
general_. _Of the Princes that murmur against the mischiefs caused by
the_ Pope’s _Nephews in_ Christendom. _Of the honour that Princes
receive in bestowing Revenues upon the Church_. _How the Scandal was
first introduced in the Church_. _Of the Complaints made against the_
Popes. _Of the_ Primum movens, _that gives Motion to the Sphere of the_
Nipotismo. _Of a Comparison betwixt the Gospel and the Churchmen_. _Of
a Dispute between __a_ Papist _Preacher_, _and a_ Protestant. _Of the
Spirit of the_ Nipotismo, _inclined to gather Riches_. _Of the
impossibility of serving God and the World_. _Of the Excommunication of
the_ Lucheses _by_ Urban _the Eighth_. _Why men are so easily
corrupted_. _Of an Accident that befel St_. Francis _of_ Assiza. _Of
another that befel St_. Francis _of_ Paola. _Of a false Opinion_,
_maintained by some Divines_. _Of a Discourse held by_ Ferdinand, _Great
Duke of_ Toscany, _to a Pilgrim that was going to_ Rome. _Of the great
number of Decrees that have been made to reform the Church-men_. _Of the
People that complain of the_ Nipotismo. _How all_ Christendom _is
scandalized by it_. _How the Monks exclaim against it_, _because it
starves them_. _How often Princes withdraw from_ Rome _discontented_.
_Of the_ Popes _that cannot reform the Abuses of the Church_, _except
they begin with their Nephews_. _Of_ Alexander _the Seventh_, _and his
austere Life_. _How the good Example he gave in the beginning of his_
Pontificate, _was of great profit to the Church_. _Of some_ Protestants
_that went to_ Rome _on purpose_, _upon the noise of his exemplary Life_.
_How he left off hating_, _and fell to loving his Kindred_. _Of_ Don
Mario, _the Head of this_ Nipotismo. _Of the Disorder that was in_ Rome,
_about the Accident that befel the Duke of_ Crequy. _Of the damage done
to the Church by it_. _Of_ Don Agostino, _and his high Carriage_. _Of
the Cardinal_ Padrone _his inclination to sensual Pleasure_. _Of the
Taxes and Oppression of the_ Pope’s _Subjects_. _Of a particular Opinion
about the Peoples Vices_. _Of the pitiful condition of the Church in_
Innocentius _the Tenth’s time_. _Of the Renunciation of the Cardinals
Cap_, _made by the __Prince_ Pamphilio. _How_ Donna Olympia _did carry
her self towards the_ Nipotismo. _Of the Princes_ Ludovisio _and_
Giustiniani. _Of the_ Nipotismo _of_ Urban _the Eighth_. _Of the
Praises given to this_ Nipotismo, _by those who have writ the Life of_
Urban. _Of the Policy of the Nephews of the_ Popes. _Of the most
remarkable Passages of the Life of_ Urban. _How the Writers did
dissemble all the ill done by him_. _Of the_ Barberins _Proceedings
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