Hosting the World in the Apostolic Palace: Gregory XIII’s Guardaroba in April 1585
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Apostolic Palace, Guardaroba, Gregory XIII, Papacy, RomeResumen
The article considers the inventory of Pope Gregory XIII, prepared by officials of the Apostolic Chamber in the days following his death in April 1585. The list of items which the officials of the Chamber prepared and which is published here for the first time reveals a veritable space of papal memory going back to over a century in terms of the objects which it reveals at the same time as it reveals the truly global reach of the Boncompagni papacy. This is made especially clear through the presence of items which clearly came from beyond Europe and which the officials were unable to situate geographically aside from the nebulous category of India.
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