Why was Queen Elizabeth I unpopular in Italy?

Answer 1

In my opinion Elizabeth was unpopular in Italy with the Emperor who owned vast swathes of Italy in the northern sector and also with the Roman Bishop who also occupied the place of a King in Northern Italy.

As to why this was so?

I imagine a great deal of the unpopularity was because of Elizabeth's pedigree i.e. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn , as her parents. Anne Boleyn supplanting Catherine who was aunt to the Emperor. Besides this the Queen had firmly turned down the Emperors relative as her Consort,Philip pf Spain. Also, the Emperor was in cahoots with the Pope who held a special dislike of the Queen because she adopted the same attitude as her father,Henry, in relation both to the Papal Court and the Holy Roman Church!

For 1500 yrs, the papal writ for simple ecclesiastical business had not run in England without permission of the King. This is oftimes denied, but we have only to read the history books and it is all spelt out! Even further, even though for some twelve or thirteen years Elizabeth had tolerated the Trentist practices of the Anglo papalists in England she still refused to acknowledge Trent as did the Church in England, in all Europe only England held out for the ancient ways!