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De las casi trescientas elecciones papales que se han dado en la historia, entre legítimas e ilegítimas, menos de una docena han tenido el resultado que se había pronosticado en la víspera. De vez en cuando esa historia de las elecciones de los papas ha sido enrevesada como una novela policíaca, dramática como una tragedia, fascinante como un relato de viajes, apasionada como una novela de aventuras. La elección de los papas se ha desarrollado de formas muy distintas: algunas se han hecho por aclamación del pueblo y otras han sido confiadas a unos pocos cardenales; ha habido...

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Of contents: Vol. 1. General introductions ; The festivals for Henri III in Cracow, Venice, Orléans and Rouen ; Festivals in Genoa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; Festivals in Poland-Lithuania from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century ; Festivals in the Netherlands -- Vol. 2. Festivals of the Protestant Union ; Festivals commemorating the defeat of Protestantism in La Rochelle ; Festivals in Scandinavia ; The New World : seventeenth-century festivals in the viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru.