LUDWIG VON PASTOR'S

HISTORY OF THE POPES FROM THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES

VOLUMES XXV & XXVI .

 

PAUL V.

(1605-1621)

 

CHAPTER I.

The Conclaves in the Spring of 1605. Leo XI and Paul V.

 

CHAPTER II.

Antecedents, Character and Environment of Paul V.

The Borghese.

 

CHAPTER III.

Paul V as Ruler of the Papal States. Papal Finance.

 

CHAPTER IV.

Ecclesiastico-Political Struggle with Venice and Proclamation of the Interdict.

 

CHAPTER V.

Sarpi’s Political Theories and his Attempts to Protestantize Venice.

 

CHAPTER VI.

Paul V’s Reforming Activity within the Church. Suspension of the Thomist and Molinist Controversy. Canonizations.

 

CHAPTER VII.

Paul V Fosters the Religious Orders. Galileo and the Roman Inquisition. Nomination of Cardinals.

 

CHAPTER VIII.

Spread of Christianity in Missionary Countries.

 

CHAPTER IX.

Paul V’s Efforts for the Pacification of Western Europe and Italy. Religious Conditions in Switzerland and Disturbances in the Grisons.

 

CHAPTER X.

Catholic Reform and Restoration in France—Bérulle and his Oratory—The Ursulines and the Visitation —Francis de Sales and Frances de Chantal—Revival of Catholicism in the Spanish Netherlands.

 

CHAPTER XI.

The Gunpowder Plot and the Oath of Allegiance.—Paul V. and James I’s Plans for a Spanish Marriage.

 

CHAPTER XII.

Russia and Poland—The End of the False Demetrius— Catholic Restoration under Sigismund III, King of Poland—The Union of the Ruthenians.

 

CHAPTER XIII.

Relations of Paul V with the Emperors Rudolph II, Matthias and Ferdinand II—Good Results of the Catholic Restoration in Germany—The Bohemian Revolution and the Beginning of the Thirty Years War.

 

 

CHAPTER XIV.

Paul V as a Patron of the Arts—Completion of St. Peter’s—The Pauline Chapel in S. Maria Maggiore—The Palace of the Quirinal—Streets and Fountains—The Borghese Palace and Villa —Transformation of the Eternal City.

 

 

 

History of the Council of Trent

 

The history of Henry IV, (surnamed the Great), king of France

 

Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots in France

 

Le gallicanisme et la réforme catholique essai historique sur l'introduction en France des décrets du concile de Trente (1563-1615)

 

The follies of science at the court of Rudolph II, 1576-1612

 

The history of the reign of Philip the Third, King of Spain

 

The Jesuits in Poland

 

History of Bohemia

 

A narrative of the gunpowder plot

 

The condition of catholics under James I : Father Gerard's narrative of the Gunpowder Plot

 

Galileo Galilei and the Roman curia

 

A SHORT HISTORY OF VENICE