READING HALL THE DOORS OF WISDOM

ADRIAN VI (1522-1523) & CLEMENT VII (1523-1534)

CHAPTER I Situation in Rome at the Death of Leo X. Election of Adrian VI. CHAPTER II. Early Career of Adrian VI. Projects of Peace and Reform. CHAPTER III. Adrian VI as a Reformer and Ecclesiastical Ruler. CHAPTER IV. The Mission of Francesco Chieregati to the Diet of Nuremberg. —Adrian's Attitude towards the German Schism. CHAPTER V. Adrian's Efforts to restore Peace and promote the Crusade. — The Fall of Rhodes and the Support of Hungary. CHAPTER VI. The Intrigues of Cardinal Soderini and the Rupture with France. —Adrian VI joins the Imperial League. — His Death. CHAPTER VII. Clement VII. —His Election, Character, and the Beginning of his Reign. —His Ineffectual Efforts for Peace and his Alliance with Francis I of France. CHAPTER VIII. Results of the Battle of Pavia. —Quarrels between the Pope and the Emperor. —Formation of a Coalition against Charles V (League of Cognac, May 22, 1526). CHAPTER IX. Clement VII and Italy at War with Charles V.—The Raid of the Colonna. CHAPTER X. The Anti-Papal Policy of the Emperor. —Advance of the Imperial Army on Rome. CHAPTER XI. The Sack of Rome. —Captivity of the Pope. CHAPTER XII. The Anarchic Condition of the Papal States. —The Efforts of Henry VIII and Francis I to deliver the Pope. — The Attitude of Charles V. The Flight of Clement VII to Orvieto. CHAPTER XIII. Clement VII in Exile at Orvieto and Viterbo.—The Imperialists leave Rome. — Disaster to the French Army in Naples.—The Weakness of the Pope’s Diplomacy.—His Return to Rome. CHAPTER XIV. Reconciliation of the Emperor and the Pope.—The Treaties of Barcelona and Cambrai. CHAPTER XV. The Meeting of Clement VII and Charles V at Bologna. —The Last Imperial Coronation.—Restoration of the Medicean Rule in Florence. CHAPTER XVI. The Religious Divisions in Germany. CHAPTER XVII. Negotiations as to the Council, to the Pacification of Nuremberg, 1532. CHAPTER XVIII. Clement VII’s Efforts to protect Christendom from the Turks. CHAPTER XIX. Clement the Seventh’s Second Meeting with the Emperor at Bologna.—The Conciliar Question in the Years 1532-1533.—The Pope and Francis I at Marseilles.— The Marriage of Catherine de’ Medici. CHAPTER XX. The Divorce of Henry VIII and the English Schism. CHAPTER XXI. The Protestant Revolt in Scandinavia and Switzerland. —Heretical Movements among the Latin Races. CHAPTER XXII. The Close of the Pontificate of Clement VII.—His Position towards Literature and Art. CHAPTER XXIII. Clement VII and the internal Affairs of the Church.— His Attitude towards the Questions of the Council and Reform. CHAPTER XXIV. The Beginnings of the Catholic Reformation.—The Oratory of the Divine Love.—Gaetano di Tiene and Carafa. CHAPTER XXV. Gian Matteo Giberti.—The Somaschi and the Barnabites. CHAPTER XXVI. Reform of the Older Orders.—The Capuchins ---------------------- 1464-1503. PAUL II, SIXTUS IV, INNOCENT VIII, ALEXANDER VI POPE JULIUS II 1503-1513 POPE LEO X 1513-1521 THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V- SULEIMAN "THE MAGNIFICENT" A.D. 1494-1566. THE COURT AND REIGN OF FRANCIS THE FIRST, King of France THE REIGN OF HENRY THE EIGHT THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY 1496 - 1528 THE SWEDISH REVOLUTION UNDER GUSTAVUS VASA       The renaissance, the Protestant revolution and the Catholic reformation in continental Europe The Capuchins : a contribution to the history of the Counter-Reformation The Catholic Reformation Christian persecutions : being a historical expostion of the principal Catholic events from the Christian era to the present time written from an unprejudiced standpoint  The reformation in Germany from its beginning to the religious peace of Augsburg The Reformation in Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Scotland and England, the Anabaptists and Socinian movements; the Counter-Reformation The siege of Florence