Editing Interdict (section)

=== Italy ===

* Rome itself was placed under interdict by [[Pope Adrian IV]] in 1155 a result of [[Commune of Rome|a rebellion]] led by the preacher, [[Arnold of Brescia]]. 
*[[Pope Gregory XI]] placed the city of [[Florence]] under interdict in March 1376 during the [[War of the Eight Saints]].  
* [[Pope Sixtus IV]] decreed an interdict against the [[Republic of Florence]] in 1478 in response to the hanging of Bishop [[Francesco Salviati (bishop)|Francesco Salviati]] in response to his involvement in the [[Pazzi conspiracy]].
* On 23 June 1482, [[Pope Sixtus IV]] decreed an interdict against the [[Republic of Venice]], unless it abandoned within 15 days its siege of [[Ferrara]]. The Venetians managed to evade it by an appeal to a future council.<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=%22Renaissance+Society%22+Venice+interdict+%22Sixtus+IV%22+&btnG= David Chambers, Brian Pullan, Jennifer Fletcher (editors), ''Venice: A Documentary History, 1450–1630''] (University of Toronto Press 2001 {{ISBN|978-0-8020-8424-8}}), pp. 219–220</ref>
* On 27 April 1509, as he entered the [[War of the League of Cambrai]], aiming to recover papal control of the [[Romagna]], where Venice had seized several cities in 1503, [[Pope Julius II]] placed Venice under interdict until it accepted peace terms on 14 February 1510, when it was lifted.
* The [[Venetian Interdict]] of 1606–1607 is a better-known and more lengthy case. [[Pope Paul V]] placed the [[Republic of Venice]] under interdict in 1606 after the civil authorities jailed two priests.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rao|first=John C. Rao|date=21 September 2004|title=The Venetian Interdict of 1606–1607|url=http://www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20040921.html|access-date=2021-01-16|website=Seattle Catholic}}</ref>
*In 1909, the town of [[Adria]] in Italy was placed under interdict for 15 days after a local campaign against the move of a bishop.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040915003932/http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0403714.htm CNS Story: Holding public figures accountable to church: centuries of precedent]</ref>