The Post-Tridentine Apostolic Nunciatures (1562–1605) A Prosopographical and Comparative Study

Introduction,  1.  Apostolic Nunciatures in Shaping Papal Geopolitics,  2.  Becoming a Nuncio,  3.  Nuncios in the Papal Diplomatic Network,  4.  Apostolic Nunciature: Career’s Watershed?,  5.  Legacy: The Intellectual Production of Apostolic Nuncios,  6.  Prosopographical Tables of the Post-Tridentine Apostolic Nuncios

Biography

Dorota Gregorowicz is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at the Institute of History, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Her research focuses on early modern diplomacy, particularly papal diplomacy and relations between the Holy See and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She is an editor of the Acta Nuntiaturae Polonae series and studies apostolic nunciatures as institutions of governance, negotiation, and information exchange in post-Tridentine Europe.

Tomáš Černušák is Associate Professor at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, researcher at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Czech Historical Institute in Rome. His work focuses on early modern papal diplomacy and politics in the imperial lands, particularly in Bohemia and Central Europe, as well as on political communication and religious life during the Catholic Reform. He is editor of critical editions of the correspondence of papal nuncios at the imperial court and examines the functioning of nunciatures within the structures of early modern governance.

Paolo Carta is Professor of History of Political Thought and Dean of Faculty of Law at the University of Trento, Italy. His research focuses on early modern legal and political thought, the history of diplomacy, leadership, and the rule of law, with particular attention to the works of Francesco Guicciardini. He explores the relationship between political theory and diplomatic practice in Renaissance and early modern Europe and has edited primary sources, including the Ricordi politici of the apostolic nuncio Cesare Speciano.