Abstract
By the middle of the sixteenth century, the Italian Wars, economic disaster, social strife, and religious controversy upset any semblance of unity, peace, or order in Modena, a little city in north-central Italy. Just as chaos and crisis reached a peak, Edigio Foscarari arrived as Modena's first resident bishop in over fifty years. He immediately began to forge an alliance with the ruling elite. Together, the bishop and the elite addressed pressing issues involving Christian morality and social ethics by leading urban religious ritual, mediating social conflicts, and caring for poverty-stricken citizens. This essay on the crisis in Modena and the alliance between the bishop and the ruling elite in the public sphere casts new light on the nature of episcopal activity, the intersection of religion and politics, and the development of Catholic reform in Tridentine Italy.
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