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Le désastre de Pavie: 24 février 1525 by Jean Giono

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By Jean Giono

Le désastre de Pavie, c’est l’occasion inespéré pour un romancier de raconter une histoire vraie qui est en soi totalement romanesque. D’entrée, les personnages sont campés : un beau roi, séducteur, dont l’appétit de vivre n’a d’égal que l’ambition d’être le prince des Arts et des Lettres, au aspect qu’il vient juste d’imposer le français d’Île-de-France comme l. a. langue administrative et officielle du royaume et qui se cache pas qu’il est fasciné par l. a. Renaissance italienne qu’il vient de découvrir de l’autre côté des Alpes ; en face, un personnage sombre, voire sinistre, obsédé par son salut au aspect, dans quelques années de renoncer à son ambitious trône et pouvoir sur l’Allemagne, l’Autriche, les Flandres, l’Espagne et le Nouveau-Monde pour se retirer vivre de macérations dans un couvent. Une bataille en décidera autrement, le roi de France sera déporté à Madrid, devra jurer l. a. paix puis se parjurer, une fois libéré. Giono n’a pas à forcer son expertise pour narrer cet incroyable scénario Il en restera l’essentiel : pour des siècles, une politique étrangère qui air of secrecy pour seul objectif l’abaissement de los angeles maison d’Autriche. L’ouvrage a paru en 1963 dans l. a. assortment « Les trente journées ».

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Maria in 1435–57 (Cavazzi, La diaconia, pp. 263–4). In this book I shall refer to the latter as S. Ciriaco. 19 Ed. in Fonseca, De basilica S. Laurentii, pp. 250–5. 20 The main rural document collections, in addition to those listed in n. 18 (of which SMCM has few for the countryside), are S. Alessio, S. Gregorio, S. Prassede, and S. Sisto (which collects the charters of S. Maria Tempuli). See in general Wickham, ‘La struttura’, and below, Chapter 2. Grand Narratives 11 set drying up and a different one coming on stream—as when, for example, around 1020, S.

41–60, did not consider Pandolfo to be the author of the lives; the argument for Pandolfo seems more plausible to Přerovský, I, pp. , and to me. The basic critical commentary on the Annales is Whitton, ‘The Annales Romani’. 5 Liutprando, Antapodosis and Historia Ottonis; John of Salisbury, Historia pontificalis. The complete list of non-Roman sources is vast; see the bibliography for those used here. 6 Liber pontificalis, ed. Přerovský, II, pp. 731–41, 750–4. 7 See Wickham, ‘The financing’, and below, pp.

Rome becomes simply an Other in this tradition. Papal government, from Leo IX onward, properly looked outwards, to Latin Europe; its precarious local base was only an embarrassment. 32 It is of course the right of every historian to choose his or her subject of study; and the analysis of major changes in papal institutions, as part of a wider ecclesiastical history, is not only an obviously legitimate historical field, but a very welldocumented and thus satisfying one. I am very happy to leave it to its experts to study it.

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