Antonio de Fuenmayor's Life of Pius V: a Pope in early modern Spanish historiography by Pattenden, M

“…But, because Fuenmayor wrote in Spanish rather than Italian, his text has never received much attention. This article presents it in its context for the first time and argues that it highlights an important problem in developing genre of early modern Spanish historiography: how to incorporate the pope in the national histories promoted by Philip II, III, and IV? …”

The road from pope to king : il Corso Vittorio Emanuele, II by Dietz, Thomas Michael, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The long apprenticeship: Rodrigo Borgia as Papal Vice-Chancellor, 1457-1492 by Fellows, K

“…In order to answer that question, the thesis examines Borgia’s dealings with five popes – Calixtus III, Pius II, Paul II, Sixtus IV and Innocent VIII – and with the cardinals they created, the men who actually voted for him. …”

Strange usurped potentates: Elizabeth I, the papacy and the Indian summer of the medieval deposing power by Lock, J

“…Disagreements among Catholic potentates precluded any such agreement in the early part of Elizabeth's reign; and ensured that, when Pius V did issue his sentence, it proved a dangerous embarrassment (in no way mitigated by Gregory XIII's qualification of it). …”