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Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts. By Jeffrey Collins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xxii + 355 pp. $85.00 cloth.

Pope Pius VI Braschi (1775-99) was a reformer, yet a great supporter of nepotism. He sought to lure wayward Protestants back to the Catholic Church, while reimposing repressive policies on Rome's Jewish community. A promoter of traditional papal values, he nonetheless, in a risque moment, flashed his ankle during his coronation. He banished doughnut sellers from the piazza in front of Saint Peter's, while ...

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