Church Politics in Seventeenth-Century Rome: Cardinal Decio Azzolino, Queen Christina of Sweden, and the Squadrone Volante (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis: Stockholm Studies in History, 60) [Marie-Louise Roden] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. COURT AND POLITICS IN PAPAL ROME This book attempts to overcome the traditional historiographical approach to the role of the early modern papacy focusing on the actual mechanisms of power in the papal court. Olivier p oncet 8 The squadrone volante: