Chapter VIII: The Counter Reformation

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 Päpste 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 römischen Päpste_, 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 Réformation 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 Réforme 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._