Giorgio Caravale: 4 books
Beyond the Inquisition
Ambrogio Catarino Politi and the Origins of the Counter-Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In Beyond the Inquisition, originally published in an Italian edition in 2007, Giorgio Caravale offers a fresh perspective on sixteenth-century Italian religious history and the religious crisis that swept across Europe during that period. Through an intellectual biography of Ambrogio Catarino Politi...
Censorship and Heresy in Revolutionary England and Counter-Reformation Rome
Story of a Dangerous Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book explores the secrets of the extraordinary editorial success of Jacobus Acontius' Satan's Stratagems, an important book that intrigued readers and outraged religious authorities across Europe. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work, first published in Basel in 1565, was a...
Il profeta disarmato
L'eresia di Francesco Pucci nell'Europa del Cinquecento
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Quale fu l'eredità della cosiddetta Riforma italiana? Quale il contributo dell'umanesimo italiano agli sviluppi europei dell'irenismo e della tolleranza religiosa? Il libro ricostruisce con l'aiuto di documenti inediti la vicenda biografica e intellettuale di Francesco Pucci (1543-1597). Educato nella...
Forbidden Prayer
Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book delineates the attempt, carried out by the Congregations of the Inquisition and the Index during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, to purge various devotional texts in the Italian vernacular of heterodox beliefs and superstitious elements, while imposing a rigid uniformity in...