Innocenzo XI, un innovatore tradizionalista. Riforme austere e audaci compromessi per la Santa Sede

The article tries to highlight the change in direction of the papacy’s internal and foreign policy which occurred following the election of Innocent XI. Indeed, Pope Odescalchi has adopted a series of measures aimed to moralizing and rationalizing the Curia and the pontifical institutions choosing a perspective in stark opposition to the path traced by his Baroque predecessors. After internal reforms, Benedetto Odescalchi was the author of some decisions that allowed Rome to play a central role in international political-diplomatic dynamics questioning traditionalist positions of the Curia, as in the case of the negotiation for the peace congress in Nijmegen or on the occasion of the dialogue with Moscow.