The Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, c. 1590-1640 / Thomas F. Mayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayer, Thomas F. (Thomas Frederick), 1951-2014, Author.

Series:

Haney Foundation Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church. Congregatio Romanae et Universalis Inquisitionis.

Catholic Church.

Trials (Heresy)--Italy--History--17th century.

Trials (Heresy).

Trials (Heresy)--Italy--History--16th century.

Inquisition--Italy--History--17th century.

Inquisition.

Inquisition--Italy--History--16th century.

Italy--Church history--17th century.

Italy.

Italy--Church history--16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the moment of its founding in 1542, the Roman Inquisition acted as a political machine. Although inquisitors in earlier centuries had operated somewhat independently of papal authority, the gradual bureaucratization of the Roman Inquisition permitted the popes increasing license to establish and exercise direct control over local tribunals, though with varying degrees of success. In particular, Pope Urban VIII's aggressive drive to establish papal control through the agency of the Inquisition played out differently among the Italian states, whose local inquisitions varied in number and secular power. Rome's efforts to bring the Venetians to heel largely failed in spite of the interdict of 1606, and Venice maintained lay control of most religious matters. Although Florence and Naples resisted papal intrusions into their jurisdictions, on the other hand, they were eventually brought to answer directly to Rome—due in no small part to Urban VIII's subversions of the law. Thomas F. Mayer provides a richly detailed account of the ways the Roman Inquisition operated to serve the papacy's long-standing political aims in Naples, Venice, and Florence. Drawing on the Inquisition's own records, diplomatic correspondence, local documents, newsletters, and other sources, Mayer sheds new light on papal interdicts and high-profile court cases that signaled significant shifts in inquisitorial authority for each Italian state. Alongside his earlier volume, The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo, this masterful study extends and develops our understanding of the Inquisition as a political and legal institution.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Spain and Naples

Chapter 2. Naples: Tommaso Campanella

Chapter 3. Venice in the Wake of the Interdict

Chapter 4. Venice: Giordano Bruno, Cesare Cremonini, and Marcantonio De Dominis

Chapter 5. Florence I

Chapter 6. Florence II

Conclusion

Notes

List of Abbreviations

Selected Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780812209341

0812209346

OCLC:

870199308