Innocent, immediately upon his accession, turns all…
October 1676 CE
Innocent, immediately upon his accession, turns all his efforts towards reducing the expenses of the Curia.
He passes strict ordinances against nepotism among the cardinals.
He lives very parsimoniously and exhorts the cardinals to do the same.
In this manner he not only squares the annual deficit which at his accession had reached the sum of one hundred and seventy thousand scudi, but within a few years the papal income will even exceed the expenditures.
He loses no time in declaring and practically manifesting his zeal as a reformer of manners and a corrector of administrative abuses.
Beginning with the clergy, he seeks to raise the laity also to a higher moral standard of living.
He closes all of the theaters in Rome (considered to be centers of vice and immorality) and famously brings a temporary halt to the flourishing traditions of Roman opera.