Le Guerre di Religione viste dalla Lione confessionale di Pierre Matthieu, una Controriforma europea (anni 1580)

This essay examines the Wars of Religion with a particular focus on the point of view of Pierre Matthieu and his intellectual circle in the context of the Catholic city of Lyon during the 1580s. Through this original perspective, this study will privilege the counterreformist and transnational features of these conflicts rather than their national dimension, thus shedding a light on the political commitment of an important part of those Catholics who stood against tolerance towards the Huguenots. For this group, religious unity was an eminently political problem, as their ideas of Church and society coincided.