The article tries to highlight the change in direction of the papacy’s internal and foreign policy which occurred following the election of Innocent XI. Indeed, Pope Odescalchi has adopted a series of measures aimed to moralizing and rationalizing the Curia and the pontifical institutions choosing a perspective in stark opposition to the path traced by his Baroque predecessors. After internal reforms, Benedetto Odescalchi was the author of some decisions that allowed Rome to play a central role in international political-diplomatic dynamics questioning traditionalist positions of the Curia, as in the case of the negotiation for the peace congress in Nijmegen or on the occasion of the dialogue with Moscow
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