Publishing for the Popes: The Roman Curia and the Use of Printing (1527–1555). Paolo Sachet. Library of the Written Word 80; The Handpress World 61. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xii + 306 pp. €138

The edition was a scholarly answer to a “mendacious” work (85), a 1524 Latin translation of Theophylact by the Protestant Johannes Oecolampadius, which had considerable circulation. Cervini and his collaborators published four kinds of Catholic religious scholarship: patristic and other early Christian authors, books related to the Council of Trent, ecclesiastical history, and oriental language material. [...]Cervini and his collaborators anticipated the wave of early church historiography that both Catholics and Protestants produced in the later sixteenth century.