Europe and the Roman Curia: Conflicts of the Counter Reformation

The Roman Curia will be analyzed as an international agency capable of acting not so much as the head of a powerful machine, but as the place of confluence, listening and governing of local conflicts coming from the European multi-denominational space, and above all of managing structural conflicts within the Catholic Church. The essay considers the period between the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 and the end of the Thirty Years' War (1648), with particular attention to the institutional diplomatic channels (nuncios and apostolic legates) and the international activity of the regular orders before and after the creation (1622) of the cardinal Congregation of Propaganda Fide.