SECTIONS 1 and 2. The Papacy and Italy 1521-1590.
SOURCES:
C. Mirbt: op. cit.
Consilium delectorum cardinalium et aliorum praelatorum de emendanda ecclesia 1537. In Mansi: Sacrorum Conciliorum et Decretorum collectio nova, 1751, Supplement 5, pp. 539-47. The same in German with Luther's notes in Luther's Werke, Weimar, vol. 50.
LITERATURE:
L. von Pastor: A History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages. English translation ed. by R. F. Kerr. Vols. 9-12. 1910 ff. (These volumes cover the period 1522-1549. Standard work dense with new knowledge).
L. von Pastor: Geschichte der Paepste seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters. Band VI. 1913; VII. 1920. (Of these volumes of the German, covering the years 1550-65, there is as yet no English translation).
P. Herre: Papsttum und Papstwahl im Zeitalter Philipps, II. 1907.
J. McCabe: Crises in the History of the Papacy. 1916. (Popular).
Mandel Creighton: op. cit.
L. von Ranke: History of the popes, their church and state, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, translated from the German by Sarah Austin. Vol. 1, 1841. (Translation of Ranke's Die roemischen Paepste, of which the first edition appeared 1834-6. A classic).
H. M. Vaughan: The Medici Popes. 1908. (Popular, sympathetic).
G. Droysen: Geschichte der Gegenreformation. 1893. (Oncken's Series).
E. Rodocanachi: "La Reformation en Italic," Revue des Deux Mondes, March, 1915.
Lord Acton: Lectures on Modern History, 1906, pp. 108 ff.
J. A. Symonds: The Catholic Reaction. 2 vols. 1887.
G. Monod: "La Reforme Catholique," Revue Historique, vol. cxxi (1916).
B. Wiffen: Life and Writings of Juan de Valdes. 1865.
C. Hare: Men and Women of the Italian Reformation. (1913).
Kirche und Reformation. Unter mitwirkung von L. v. Pastor, W. Schnyder, L. Schneller usw. hg. von J. Scheuber. 1917.
"Counter-Reformation" in the Catholic Encyclopaedia.
G. Benrath: Geschichte der Reformation in Venedig. 1886.
J. Burckhardt: op. cit.
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