Il patronato regio nella dialettica dei poteri: la Sardegna sabauda (1720-1773)

Royal patronage was a fundamental instrument of government in Eighteenthcentury Sardinia. Its exercise was the basis of a complex relationship between the State and the local Church that was not limited to the right of nominating prelates and clerics to the Holy See: alongside the general supervision of ecclesiastical activities and the adoption of an inclusive logic, the frictionless exercise of the jurisdictional activity broadened the domain of secular power. This trend was greatly aided by the important Concordia regia e apostolica, originally between Aragon and the papal delegate, which in 1551 was extended to Sardinia.