El cardenal Gaspar Cervantes de Gaete: Contrareforma i Renaixement a Messina, Salern i Tarragona (1561-1575)

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Ida Mauro

Gaspar Cervantes de Gaete (1511-1575) took part in the last sessions of the Council of Trent and promoted an early application of the Tridentine edicts in the most prestigious archdioceses of the Kingdoms of Sicily and Naples and of the Principality of Catalonia. His brief governments in Messina (1561-1564), Salerno (1564-1568) and Tarragona (nominal 1568-1575) marked the history of these cities even though alternate governance with stays in Rome, where he was claimed by different popes, in particular by Pius V Ghislieri (1566-1572) who elevated him as cardinal in 1570. The text presents four main aspects of his biography and also analyses the commissions for new works that accompanied his work as a reforming archbishop (seminar constructions, welfare centres, chapel decorations, urban reforms...).

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Gaspar Cervantes de Gaete, Jesuits, Tridentine seminaries, Council of Trent, Inquisition, architectural patronage.

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Mauro, Ida. “El cardenal Gaspar Cervantes de Gaete: Contrareforma i Renaixement a Messina, Salern i Tarragona (1561-1575)”. Pedralbes: revista d’història moderna, 2019, pp. 951-74, https://raco.cat/index.php/Pedralbes/article/view/371152.

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