History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome

1903. Volume Four of Six. Creighton writes in the Preface: My aim in this book is to bring together materials for a judgment of the change which came over Europe in the sixteenth century, to which the name of The Reformation is loosely given. I have attempted to do this from a strictly historical point of view,-by which I mean that I have contented myself with watching events and noting the gradual development of affairs. I have taken the history of the Papacy as the central point for my investigation, because it gives the largest opportunity for a survey of European affairs as a whole. Contents: Book V. The Italian Princes: Paul II.; Paul II in His Relations to Literature and Art; Sixtus IV. and the Republic of Florence; Italian Wars of Sixtus IV; Innocent VIII; Beginnings of Alexander VI; Charles VIII in Italy; Alexander VI and Fra Girolamo Savonarola; and Alexander VI and the Papal States. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.Creighton, Mandell is the author of 'History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome ' with ISBN 9781417944446 and ISBN 1417944447.