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The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is the history of the Vatican.

Six Superlative Sources

· Pastor, Ludwig von. The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages. Volumes 17-37. Herder, 1938-1953.

· Duffy, Eamon. Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes. Yale University Press, 1997.

· Kelly, J.N.D. The Oxford Dictionary of Popes. Oxford University Press, 1986.

· Hillerbrand, Hans J., et al., eds. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. 4 Volumes. Oxford University Press, 1996.

· Prodi, Paolo. The Papal Prince, One Body and Two Souls: The Papal Monarchy in Early-Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

· Hudon, William V. "Religion and Society in Early-Modern Italy: Old Questions, New Insights." American Historical Review 101/3 (June 1996): 783-804.

Other Excellent Sources

· Biagioli, Mario. Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism. University of Chicago Press, 1993.

· Cochrane, Eric. Italy, 1530-1630. Longman, 1988.

· Carpanetto, Dino, and Giuseppe Ricuperati. Italy in the Age of Reason, 1685-1789. Longman, 1987.

· McGinness, Frederick J. Right Thinking and Sacred Oratory in Counter-Reformation Rome. Princeton University Press, 1995.

· Hudon, William V. "The Early-Modern Papacy, 1566-1769: Plans for Consolidation, Long-Term Deterioration." The Great Popes through History. Edited by Frank J. Coppa, et al. Greenwood Press, 2002.

· Hudon, William V. "The Papacy in the Age of Reform, 1513-1644." Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J. Edited by Kathleen M. Comerford and Hilmar Pabel. University of Toronto Press, 2001.

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