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270 BOOK REVIEWS of the Jesuits and Capuchins eventually yielded fruit. During the Thirty Years' War Constance remained loyal to the imperial dynasty and withstood a long siege by the Protestant Swedish army. The story of this development is reconstructed from rich archival material in Constance and Innsbruck. A prosopography of Protestants in Constance, graphs and tables of pious donations, and selected documents from the archives all add to the solidity of this work. This is a thorough, well-conceived, and reliable monograph, a tribute to its author and the tradition on religion and urban society at the University of Tübingen. R. Po-CHIA Hsia New York University Aloisius Lippomano (1555—1557). Edited by Henricus Damianus Wojtyska, CP. [Acta Nuntiaturae Polonae, Tomus III/I.] (Rome: Institutum Historicum Polonicum Romae. 1993. Pp. xliii, 500.) I reviewed for Ulis journal (LXXVII [July, 1991], 516) die first volume of Ulis series, which presented an overview of die whole series, projected for sixty tomes: fifty-six for die old Polish Commonwealth from 1519 to 1797 and four for the restored Republic, 1919 to 1939. The current volume covers only the short nunciature of Aloyse Lippomano, Bishop of Verona, to Poland during die pontificate ofthe archconservative Paul IV (1555—1559). The main part of die volume prints 1 30 documents, basically the correspondence of Lippomano pertinent to his mission, plus several papal letters of credence to Polish dignitaries and three letters of theJesuit Alonso Salmerón, Lippomano's theological advisor, to Ignatius of Loyola. Sixty-six documents are in Italian, three in Spanish (Salmerón's letters), and the rest are in Latin. A long appendix prints thirty-four more documents, all but two in Latin, which shed light on Lippomano's mission. Both sets of documents are arranged chronologically; all are prefaced by a Latin summary, and there are copious explanatory footnotes in Latin. The long introduction (in Latin) summarizes Lippomano's career previous to his appointment as nuncio to Poland; his healdi declined while in Poland, and he died two years after his return to Italy. The introduction then discusses the archival sources of the documents and concludes widi a bibliography. The volume has fifty-one pages of indices. What can these documents tell historians? Many of them deal widi routine ecclesiastical administration. Several discuss the deep-seated problems of the Polish Catholic Church and the advance of Polish Protestantism (mainly Lufheranism ) bodi as a theological movement and as an institutional church. King Sigismund II (1548-1572) tended to rebut Cadiolic demands mat he uproot heresy by pointing to the rights which the Diet had granted the nobility on their estates. Several documents suggest remedies to die situation. Many BOOK REVIEWS 271 Catholics argued for married clergy, vernacular liturgy, and communion sub utraque, but Paul IV was adamant against such concessions. The most interesting documents deal with Bishop John Drohojowski of Wroclaw, who was repeatedly accused of fostering heresy—charges he denied. Similar charges were made against Bishop Andrew Zebrzydowski of Krakow. Another series ofdocuments deal with Dorothy Lazecka, who received the eucharist and was accused of selling it to several Jews; King Sigismund ordered her to be burnt. The accused Jews were also punished. My own research has involved reading the nuncios' reports from the 1 580's, in which relations with the Orthodox figured prominently—a subject about which the Lippomano documents are almost silent. Wojtyska is the leading authority in this area. This is his fourth volume in the series; in 1977 he published a volume in Polish on diplomatic relations between Poland_and the papacy from 1548 to 1563. The present volume is a work of excellent scholarship which libraries with strong collections in Polish or church history should purchase. John Patrick Donnelly, S.J. Marquette University Réforme protestante, Réforme catholique dans la province d'Avignon au XVIe siècle. By Marc Venard. [Histoire Religieuse de la France, Vol. 1.] (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf. 1993. Pp. 1280. 340 F.) The appearance of this book is an event to be hailed. France's Société d'Histoire Religieuse, which from 1912 to 1977 produced the worthy "Biblioth èque d'histoire ecclésiastique de la France," has resumed...

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