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"This is a lovely book Sweeping through the world of learning of the early seventeenth century, it makes vivid what could have become a dry-as-dust recounting of late Renaissance thought. A rare achievement that will be essential reading for students of early modern intellectual and cultural history for many years to come."--Theodore K. Rabb, author of Renaissance Lives
Review Quotes: "An extremely engaging book, one that will reveal to the general public hitherto unknown and perhaps unsuspected aspects of Baroque Rome and the Baroque papacy."---Franco Mormando, America