GIACOMO ANTONIO MARTA: ANTIPAPAL LAWYER AND ENGLISH SPY, 1609-1618.

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  • Author(s): Grendler, Paul F.
  • Source:
    Catholic Historical Review. Oct2007, Vol. 93 Issue 4, p789-814. 26p.
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    • Subject Terms:
      MARTA, Giacomo Antonio; HISTORY of the Catholic Church & state; SIXTEENTH century; JESUIT history; PAPACY -- History -- 1566-1799; JAMES I, King of England, 1566-1625; EDUCATION; CATHOLIC Church government
    • Subject Terms:
      ENGLAND; ITALY
    • Abstract:
      Giacomo Antonio Marta (1557/58-1629) of Naples was a distinguished legal scholar and professor at several Italian universities. His education, warm feelings for the Jesuits, and career should have made him a papal defender in an era of church-state jurisdictional conflict. But in a legal work of 1609 he limited papal temporal rights and became a spy for James I of England. He published an anonymous pamphlet which excoriated the papacy for its alleged sins and called for a general council to depose Paul V. But not even his enemies believed that he was anything but a Catholic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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