Abstract
Abstract This article analyzes the communication and celebration of the news of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew at Rome. It explains why there was such rejoicing on that occasion, and it reveals the mechanisms for the transformation of ‘news’ into a ‘news event’. Taking this case-study as its starting-point, it seeks to examine the role of the Urbs as a centre for the reception of news and its prioritization, through which the status of an event in the contemporary Catholic world was determined. The pontifical city emerges as an international political stage, on which different actors sought to impose their particular interpretation of far-off events. That is illustrated by the actions of Charles de Guise, cardinal of Lorraine, who profited from the great visibility offered by Rome in order to disseminate the notion that the massacre had been premeditated.
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