The Italian reformation outside Italy : Francesco Pucci's heresy in sixteenth-century Europe

by Giorgio Caravale

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What was the legacy of the so-called Italian Reformation? What contribution did Italian humanism make to European developments in irenicism and religious tolerance? In The Italian Reformation outside Italy , Giorgio Caravale uses previously unpublished documents to reconstruct the life and intellectual career of Francesco Pucci (1543-1597). Educated in Renaissance Florence, Pucci found his vocation as a prophet in France during the Wars of Religion and embarked on a long period of show more peregrination, stopping off in Paris, London, Basle, Antwerp, Krakow and Prague before being imprisoned, tried and sentenced to death by the Roman Inquisition three years before Giordano Bruno. His doctrines were judged to be heretical by all religious confessions and his political proposal was a spectacular failure. Caravale presents a rich chapter of sixteenth-century European history whose main features are religious conflict, irenic tension, universalist aspirations and prophetic expectations. The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS (SEGRETARIATO EUROPEO PER LE PUBBLICAZIONI SCIENTIFICHE), Via Val d'Aposa 7, I-40123 Bologna, Italy ́ seps@seps.it ́ www.seps.it show less

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Giorgio Caravale, Ph.D. (2000), University of Rome 'Sapienza', is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Roma Tre. He has recently been a member in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2013-2014) and Lauro De Bosis Lecturer in the History of Italian Civilization at Harvard show more University (2010-2011). He is the author of Forbidden Prayer. Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance Italy (Ashgate, 2011; first Italian edition 2003); George Mosse's Italy (ed. with L. Benadusi, Palgrave McMillan, 2014; It. ed. 2012); The Italian Reformation Outside Italy. Francesco Pucci's Heresy in Sixteenth Century Europe (Brill, 2015; It. ed. 2011), Beyond the Inquisition. Ambrogio Catarino Politi and the Origins of the Counter-Reformation (Notre Dame University Press, forthcoming; It. ed. 2007), and Storia di una doppia censura. Gli Stratagemmi di Satana di Giacomo Aconcio nell'Europa del Seicento (Edizioni della Normale, 2013). show less

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945.07History & geographyHistory of EuropeItalyItalySpanish-Austrian ascendancy 1527-1796
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CT1138 .P83 .C3713Auxiliary Sciences of HistoryBiographyBiographyNational biography
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