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Preaching and inquisition in Renaissance Italy : words on trial / by Giorgio Caravale ; translated by Frank Gordon.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caravale, Giorgio, author.
- Series:
- Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
- Standardized Title:
- Predicazione e inquisizione nell'Italia del Cinquecento. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Chizzola, Ippolito, active 16th century.
- Chizzola, Ippolito.
- Catholic Church--Clergy--Correspondence.
- Catholic Church.
- Clergy.
- Trials (Heresy).
- History.
- Christian heresies.
- Italy.
- Preaching--Italy--History--16th century.
- Preaching.
- Inquisition--Italy.
- Inquisition.
- Christian heresies--Italy--History--16th century.
- Trials (Heresy)--Italy--History--16th century.
- Clergy--Italy--Correspondence.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 274 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.
- Summary:
- As has been well documented, the printed word was an essential vehicle for the transmission of reformed theology, and one that has left a tangible record for historians to explore. Yet as contemporaries well recognized, books were only a part of the process. It was the spoken word - and especially preaching - that created the demand for printed works. Sermons were the plough that prepared the ground for Lutheran literature to flourish. In order to better understand the relationship between oral sermons and the spread of protestant ideas, Preaching and Inquisition in Renaissance Italy draws upon the records of the Roman Inquisition to see how that institution confronted the challenges of reform on the Italian peninsula in the sixteenth century. At the heart of its subject matter is the increasingly sophisticated rhetorical skill of heterodox preachers at the time, who achieved their ends by silence and omission rather than positive affirmations of Lutheran tenets. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Preaching, heresy, and inquisition in the first half of the sixteenth-century
- Brescia, land of contagion
- A dangerous friendship
- A network of compromising relationships
- Pulpit on trial: the beginning of the Roman inquisitorial process
- An Erasmian preacher
- A controversial sacrament
- Ambiguities of the word: dissimulation, confession and preaching
- The end of the trial
- Rehabilitation
- Conversion
- Cosimo de Medici's Roman spy: 'secret affairs' and 'insults'
- At the service of Holy Roman church
- The 'scorpion's tail': controversy in power
- Costituti Romani di Ippolito Chizzola (luglio-agosto 1549)
- Roman depositions of Ippolito Chizzola (july-august 1549).
- Notes:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Caravale, Giorgio, author. Preaching and inquisition in Renaissance Italy
- ISBN:
- 9789004325456
- 900432545X
- OCLC:
- 966849093
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