Roma ante el cambio dinástico en la monarquía española. La consulta de Carlos II a Inocencio XII sobre la sucesión

Abstract

The problems derivated from the lack of Charles II’descendants affected the whole Europe at the end of the seventeenth century. In Italy this crisis was lived with particular intensity because an important part of its territories were controlled by the Spanish Monarchy. This article studies the role of Rome, as temporal and spiritual power, in the query maded to Innocent XII by Charles II in 1700 about the Spanish sucession.