Il sultano mamelucco d'Egitto e Siria e la Curia pontificia negli anni di Innocenzo VIII. Prime ricerche

Some unpublished or known but little studied sources of Vatican SECRET Archive and the re-reading of other direct and indirect documentary and chronicle sources offer the opportunity to light a focus on diplomatic relations between the Mamluk Sultanate of Syria and Egypt and the papal Curia at the time of Innocent VIII. The analysis of the various sources and the study of the historical political context allowed to propose a different reading of Innocent VIII political action, regarding the role of the Curia in the Middle Eastern Mediterranean. The management of Prince Djem, brother of the Sultan Baiazid II, held in Rome by Innocent VIII since 1489, certainly favors the diplomatic relations between the two shores of the Mediterranean, but there must be recorded a diplomatic political activism of the pontiff towards the Mamluk kingdom, which went beyond the management of the hostage and looked at the geopolitical balance in the eastern Mediterranean.