The Lives of Eugene and he served three emperors intersected with that of the Pope their contemporary, with ups and downs went from deep darkness to light Lights.
Clement XI, a man of uncommon doctrine but restless brain, mood and seeker quarrels quarrelsome during his pontificate, he named 70 new cardinals in 15 consistory.
Emperor Leopold I, religious and influenced by the Jesuits had no disagreements with the PopeJoseph I, proved to be very independent from its predecessors against the pope and hostile to the Jesuits.
Charles VI, abolished the Salic Lex, won battles and had epochal idyllic relations with the Pope, the Habsburg Empire during his reign reached its peak. Let us recapitulate the main steps. December 8, 1700
the succession to the crown of Spain was already a problem from November 1, 1700 when King Charles II died . September 7, 1701 with the Treaty of The Hague, Holland and England Leopold I team up to the war of succession against Spain and France. 1702 the war of succession begins in May, the neutrality of the Papal States becomes less credible when they come to know that finances Philip V King of Spain
dies May 5, 1705 Emperor Leopold I. His successor Joseph I refusing act of submission to the Pope was convinced that "good government for the priests it takes the bag and stick" July 27, 1707 the Pope declares void agreements made with the Duke of Parma August 1, 1707 Clement XI excommunication Eugene and Joseph I. For the Pope
angry, very attentive to everyday life on earth is a posthumous revenge that comes from the auction due to those who are deployed on opposite sides, these are the facts. After the battle of Turin (September 1706), Eugene has to put the troops in winter quarters, 
throughout the century armies moved and fought in the seasons the weather is favorable. During the winter 1706/1707 wintering in the Imperial troops
Duchy of Parma and Piacenza on which the Duke Antonio Farnese pope waving the flag. The people protested against this peaceful invasion, but Eugenio obliges citizens and the clergy to pay a fee for the maintenance of his soldiers. throughout the century armies moved and fought in the seasons the weather is favorable. During the winter 1706/1707 wintering in the Imperial troops 
The Pope is informed when it reacts with vehemence, excommunication "invaders of Parma and Piacenza, fiefs of the church." The excommunications of the time were directed mostly to those who evade taxes, in this case the opposite was true, even had taxed the clergy. August 4, 1707 in the consistory in Rome, Clement XI to satisfy the demands of the cardinals, more and more furious things worse, promulgates three other excommunications. May 24, 1708 imperial troops invaded the Papal States occupying and annexing Comacchio,
Clement XI do not like and promises to be an army to recover the lost territories, but
France and Spain to join his project. June 26, 1708
Joseph I send a memorial to the cardinals to challenge the excommunication of the previous year and launched tirades against the Pope makes print and put up a poster declaring void the excommunications fulminate against the imperial army officers . January 15, 1709
although the nephew of Pope Joseph I go to court to obtain the return of Comacchio, the territories will remain forever in enemy hands.
The bilateral agreement signed in Rome is tantamount to a capitulation to the Pope
1714 following the Treaty of Rastatt, the one that marks the end of the War of English Succession, the Papal States suffered the permanent loss of the Duchy of Mantua Parma and Piacenza.
will start an unstoppable process of secularization in the Italian territory in 1861
that will lead to the end of the Papal States.
1715 Pope Clement XI on Holy Thursday to the crowd and re-read the bull "the Lord's Supper.
ancient bubble of 1372 issued by Pope Pius V excommunicated: heretics, schismatics, pagans, pirates of the Mediterranean and all those who did not pay taxes to the Pope, which among other things proclaimed:
"the Pope has complete control over the entire Christian world, secular and religious."
Once a race Clement XI (Pope worried), he left no doubts about his leadership: "We declare, we condemn and prohibit all such propositions as false and insidious, offensive to pious ears, scandalous, pernicious, dirty, insulting to the Church and its practices, not only injurious to the Church but also for the secular powers, seditious, impious, blasphemous, suspected of heresy of heresies and even fomented and encouraged by heretics and heresies and even schism, erroneous, and often convicted, recently, even heretical strictly speaking, contains various heresies clearly addressed to innovation. "
September 2, 1716 in the aftermath of the victory of Eugene Petrovaradin, with a reversal of 180 degrees to the excommunication of the bubble and the Lord's Supper," the Pope, in the consistory of September 2 gives Eugene (he was delivered by the Marquis Orazio Rasponi) the rapier (sword) and the pileus (cap-brimmed purple velvet, lined in cream silk, decorated with pearls and ermine skins, garnished with gold embroidery, and, as a set, the figure of a dove, symbol of the Holy Spirit edged with pearls, embroidered tails hanging ends of which are repeated in the arms of Clement XI).
Two matters reserved to the defenders of Christianity that defeat the infidels.
The box was written: "ense ac pileus solemni ritu Benedictis A SS.DN Clement XI donar mervit ob innumeras turcarum copias inter danubium et savum feliciter profligatas year domain MDCCXVI" serenissimus princeps Eugenius to sabaudia dux reorum exercitum home. "
were publicly blessed in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo on 8 September, a date absolutely extraordinary, the rule was that they were blessed Christmas.
were a rare, unique and exclusive in manufacturing.
few are chosen, remember welcomes Pope Clement VII, who donated them to the Emperor Charles V in 1529 and Pope Pius VI, who donated them to the Grand Master of the Order of Malta in 1775.
read what he wrote Francesco Maria Ottieri on "History of the wars occurred in Europe,"
a book published in 1757.
"tells us that the great victory over the Turks on August 5, the commander in chief of the Emperor Charles VI, Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Counts of Soissons, in Petrovaradin in Hungary,
Clement XI to honor him with the greatest distinction, which they used the predecessors
exercise towards the brave captains who fought and made famous achievements against infidels and heretics, sent via Orazio Rasponi Ravenna knight of Jerusalem by the sword and his valet secret hood (The Priory of Jerusalem, Jerusalem , is a religious order of chivalry very old, born in the period of ardent Christian faith, that the crusades launched by the Catholic Church to liberate the Holy Sepulchre from the control of Islam),
the sword and cap, blessed, and accompanied the gift with a short, 7 September, ie after
Salanchement and before the Battle of the jack Temeswar.
says in it, that all Christians must continue to value his wise conduct and obliged
and must respond to the great benefit, at least with praise, for he made in a very short time the innumerable troops defeated the barbarians, so could adaltarsi him what he already told Caesar, that the
come, see and win was one thing. Having to then, he
PEL gift sent to him to ignite the noble spirit and vigor to be acquired, as hoped, and novo on glory, exaltation and expansion of the faith of Christ.
The function was made with great solemnity in the cathedral of Giavarini (Gyor, Hungary city that lies at the confluence of three rivers: the Danube, Raba and RABC), he did return in Hungary in Vienna, and after dates provisions to the troops pe'quartieri winter.
More interesting news I find in the diaries published in Rome, just to report the news of the war that was fought in Hungary and therefore was called Diary of Hungary,
bring back the more substantial report.
first place, we read the speech Cumulatum gaudium, pronounced by Clement XI in the consistory of September 2, 1716, by which the churchyard parlecipò College de 'the Cardinals victories over the Turks in Hungary, public riugraziamenli made to God and the Blessed Virgin, and the determination that he intended to reward Prince Eugene's value with the sword and cap, in which he blessed Christmas. Then
riportasi in short, Firmam, coslantemque fiduciam, the Pope wrote to 7 September for congralularsi of his triumphs, increasingly urging him to support the defense of orthodoxy, break down and barbarians
pride enemies of Christianity;
warning him to send him along the cav. Rasponi, with the donation of the sword and cap, he blessed, explaining the mysteries, so gl'ingiunse to receive them in church and out of the hands of a bishop, had been possible in the celebration of Mass
The cav. Rasponi, left Rome with other donations, he went first to Vienna to pay their respects and thank
Emperor Charles VI, who at the request of the Pope had made him royal aide with the rank of colonel of the Imperial Army, then moved PEL field Temeswar .
joint cav. Rasponi by Prince Eugene, this shows
deeply penetrated the papal largesse, and celebrated her arrival, staying in his tent.
Given the lack of a bishop, volunteered for the function Stefano Könbor vicar general of
Giavarini or Raab, in whose cathedral was performed, with the emperor and the annuenza
Cardinal Bishop of Saxony, it was not possible to make it in to Temeswar craved as the Pope, in the presence of many generals have come from the field, and Prince D. Emmanuel Infante of Portugal, and managed very beautiful.
II cav. Rasponi had preceded the Prince Giavarini received with every honor and distinction. Then with the accompanying isplendido hp. Rasponi went to church, ahead of the prince, with the cap, and sword, of the salvos of artillery and muskets, and the sound of all bells.
was ricevulo by Monsignor vicar at the door of the cathedral, the head of the chapter, which administered the prince Eugenio holy water.
II cav. Rasponi took them from the epistle, with which he had prepared a chair covered with genuflessorio forward, and close to a stool on which a priest in surplice and cap, claimed the sword during the mass, after Prince orato above a sheet and pillow, went over to where was a kind of tribune of the Gospel decently decorated.
the same side rather than down the canons took place, and meeting the prince, and was placed on a Pradella mg.r Vicar's chair, and a little more low stools pei assistant ministers.
This way the child sit in the stalls canonical, Marshal Heister military governor of Giavazzi, and principal officers. In the solemn Mass celebrated by mg.r vicar, he practiced with the prince all the customary ceremonies, after which the celebrant deposed the planet, and assumed the cope went to sit on a chair placed on the top step of the altar. Then
cav. Rasponi went to deliver a brief to the prince, on a tray covered with brocade, and explained his mission with appropriate words.
Prince responded with expressions of gratitude to the Pope took the sum of short, kissed him and handed it to read to the secretary of war, which he performed aloud a step above the altar.
Lettosi that the brief from the Secretary of War, His Serene Highness Prince Eugene portò a piedi del celebrante vicario genérale di Giavarino, e genuflessa sopra uno strato di cuscino,
il cav. Rasponi collocò il berrettone sopra un cuscino, sfoderò lo stocco e lo presentò a mg.r vicario,
i1 quale recitò la solenne formula di rito..................
Nel darsi il berrettone, disse monsignor vicario nell'imporlo in capo al principe:"Accipe quoque Pileum hunc, quasi Galenm satutis,et munitionis in capite tuo, ut te jugiter in die belli coeleste lmnen obumbret. Sit in te spilitus fortitudinis , et consilii quatenus profligatis orthodoxae fidei hostibus, veram intra christianornm fines pacem stabitias, quam de coelo terrae invexit Rex pacificus Jesus Christus Dominus noster, qui cum Patre, et Spirita Sanet Vivit, et Deus per omnia saecula regnat saeculoruom. Amen. "
The prince then gave the sword and the cap, the Baron Waldorff his greatest horseman,
and kissed her hand reverently to the celebrant, he was admitted to the embrace.
the prince returned to his place, was intoned the Te Deum, including the salvos of artillery and musketry.
mg.r vicar stripped and assistants, accompanied the prince Sutla door of the church, including the prince made a polite thank you to the vicar, chapter and cav. Rasponi, who followed him, and preceded by the sword and cap, his home, where a relief of the people for some time kept them on display.
The marescialto stayed all nobly, and gave a magnificent lunch coll'intervento the vicar,
of the canons, and hp. Rasponi.
toasts were made by the Prince to the Pope and the infant, to the sound of drums and trumpets, and the shooting of 'guns.
said Prince Eugene with this letter to Clement XI ............."
1718 after the failure of European policy retires at the Vatican March 19, 1721
Clement XI died aged 71 in Rome
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