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The article discusses the relationship of papal nuncio Antonio Caetani to the government of Bohemia, Czech Republic, in the early seventeenth century. The author highlights the importance of debates between the Catholic Church and the administration of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II about the protection of church property from state sequestration. Other issues mentioned include Caetani's diplomatic correspondence with Cardinal Scipio Borghese, who led church foreign policy, the financial situation of a monastery in Doksany, Czech Republic, and the activities of Caetani's predecessor, Phillip Spinelli.

Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501-1577), the renaissance Italian physician, became famous primarily due to publishing his herbal. The Matiolli's herbal is a typical exampie of the 16th century treatise on plants, which describes them especially for their medicinal purposes. It is primarily based on the ancient work of Dioscorides De Materia Madica but it also comprises the novel contributions from Mattioli and his contemporaries. The first edition appeared in 1544 in Mattioli's mother tongue - Italian. The Latin version followed in 1554. It became very popular during the time of renaissance and it was translated into several languages. Mattioli also spent about ten years in Bohemia as a court physician of Archduke Ferdinand Tyrolský, (1529-1596). Tree editions of the herbal were prepared during Mattioli's stay in Prague: the Czech translation by Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku (1562, Prague), the German version by Georg Handsch (1563, Prague) and also the new Latin edition by Mattioli himself (1565, Venice). Later, in 1569, a new Czech edition was also printed, using some other herbals as sources too. The Mattioli's herbal was very popular among Czech people. It remained a source of herbal medicine for a very long time as can be seen from the number of modern editions. This treatise will deal especially with the two Czech editions of Mattioli's herbal and it will put them into the context of Czech botany. Other Mattioli's publications, which originated during his stay in Prague, will be discussed as well. It will also focus on the translator of the first Czech edition: Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku (1526-1600), person, which is of a great importance for development of Czech science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses religious conflicts and confessional politics in the Bohemian lands, Czech Republic, during the era of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in the 16th and early 17th centuries. After outlining the relationship between Catholics and Utraquists in Bohemia and the influence of the nobility in Bohemian politics, the author presents a microhistorical example of the town of Neuhaus (Jindřichův Hradec), Czech Republic. Topics addressed include the political aspects of religious life, the effects of the Thirty Years' War, and conversions to Catholicism. Information about the noble House of Neuhaus and their successor as ruler of the town of Neuhaus, Bohemian politician Wilhelm Slavata von Chlum und Koschumberg, is also provided.

The article discusses the influence of Roman law on municipal law in Bohemia in the 16th century. Latin legal documents used as sources in the codification of Czech municipal law are discussed, especially their use by Czech monarchs to try to strengthen royal control over towns and cities. The Czech jurist Pavel Kristian of Koldin, author of the Koldin Code, is discussed, as are the contents of the Code, including provisions covering town government, municipal courts, marriage law, inheritance and succession, criminal law, and other topics.

The article discusses concepts of freedom and privilege as applied to the crown and aristocratic segments of the populace in Bohemian regions in the years 1547 and 1619. Two relevant constitutional constructs instituted in those years are examined that grew out of rebellions and conflicts over sovereignty between the Bohemian estates and King Ferdinand I. The author claims that the estates, thought of as intransigently conservative in their views, were flexible enough in their politics to create concepts of a representational governance system and set of "freedoms" for a republic of the nobility that superseded the status quo.

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