This article analyzes the communication and celebration of the news of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew at Rome. It explains why there was such rejoicing on that occasion, and it reveals the mechanisms for the transformation of ‘news’ into a ‘news event’. Taking this case-study as its starting-point, it seeks to examine the role of the Urbs as a centre for the reception of news and its prioritization, through which the status of an event in the contemporary Catholic world was determined. The pontifical city emerges as an international political stage, on which different actors sought to impose their particular interpretation of far-off events. That is illustrated by the actions of Charles de Guise, cardinal of Lorraine, who profited from the great visibility offered by Rome in order to disseminate the notion that the massacre had been premeditated.

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从事件到制定：庆祝罗马圣巴塞洛缪大屠杀

本文分析了罗马圣巴塞洛缪大屠杀消息的传播与庆祝。它解释了为什么当时会如此欢欣鼓舞，并揭示了将“新闻”转化为“新闻事件”的机制。以这个案例研究为出发点，它试图检验城市作为新闻接收中心的作用及其优先次序，通过它确定一个事件在当代天主教世界中的地位。这座教皇城市作为一个国际政治舞台出现，不同的参与者试图在这个舞台上强加他们对遥远事件的特殊解释。洛林红衣主教夏尔·德吉斯的行为说明了这一点，