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Contraddire Pio V : dispute teologico-giuridiche in seno al Sant'Uffizio (1556)

2022 - Leo S. Olschki

P. 237-272

  • Friar of the order of Preachers, Inquisitor, Bishop, Cardinal and finally Pope; faithful reformer in the footsteps of the Council of Trent, leader of catholic Christendom, renewer of the liturgical books, guardian of faith. Michele Ghislieri, ascended to the papal throne as Pius V, is widely known as one of the greatest roman pontiff of the entire european Early Modern Age: a recently discovered manuscript in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana helps to cast some light on a fragment of his biography which was less researched, that of his intellectual life.
  • In a quaestio framed within the formal characteristics of the scolastic tradition, the future Pope (then only a junior officer of the Holy Office) addresses the question of inquisitorial jurisdiction in his relationship with the bishop's authority: what it is most interesting to underline, nevertheless, is the fact that the conclusions of Ghislieri (open to an expansion of inquisitorial powers) are directly contradicted by a fellow friar (also known as a staunch guardian of faith) through the use of juridical and theological arguments.Throughout the detailed analysis of all the seven answers requested by the Holy Office, the Ghislerian quaestio finds his correct place, offering also an invaluable view on the day to day work of that infamous institution. [Publisher's text]

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Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa : LVIII, 2, 2022