MONASTIC EXPERIENCES BETWEEN THE COURTS OF SPAIN AND SAVOY: THE CASE OF CAMALDULENSIAN HERMITS AROUND 1600

At the end of the sixteenth century the Habsburg court favored the attempt to plant in Spain the Camaldulensian hermitic experience. This monastic congregation, born in Tuscany in the Middle Ages, was simultaneously introduced in Piedmont on the initiative of the Savoy court. The article tries to read in parallel the diplomatic and ecclesiastical dynamics of this project that had different results in both geopolitical contexts united by close dynastic ties.