Cardinal Giovanni Battista De Luca: Nepotism in the Seventeenth-century Catholic Church and De Luca's Efforts to Prohibit the Practice

This dissertation examines the role of Cardinal Giovanni Battista de Luca in the reform of nepotism in the seventeenth-century Catholic Church. Popes gave very large amounts of money to their relatives and the burden of nepotism on the Catholic Church was very onerous. The Catholic Church was crippl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cowan, H. Lee
Other Authors: Stern, Laura
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of North Texas 2012
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Online Access:https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149577/