Preaching and inquisition in Renaissance Italy : words on trial / by Giorgio Caravale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caravale, Giorgio.

Series:

Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700.

Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700

Standardized Title:

Predicazione e inquisizione nell'Italia del Cinquecento. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Preaching--Italy--History--16th century.

Preaching.

Clergy--Italy--Correspondence.

Clergy.

Christian heresies--Italy--History--16th century.

Christian heresies.

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

Trials (Heresy).

Catholic Church--Clergy--Correspondence.

Catholic Church.

Chizzola, Ippolito, active 16th century.

Chizzola, Ippolito.

Chizzola, Ippolito, 16th century--Correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2017.

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction to the English Edition

Prologue: Preaching, Heresy and Inquisition in the First Half of the Sixteenth-Century

1 Brescia, Land of Contagion

2 A Dangerous Friendship

3 A Network of Compromising Relationships

4 Pulpit on Trial: The Beginning of the Roman Inquisitorial Process

5 An Erasmian Preacher

6 A Controversial Sacrament

7 Ambiguities of the Word: Dissimulation, Confession and Preaching

8 The End of the Trial

9 Rehabilitation

10 Conversion

11 Cosimo de Medici’s Roman Spy: ‘Secret Affairs’ and ‘Insults’

12 At the Service of Holy Roman Church

13 The ‘Scorpion’s Tail’: Controversy in Power

Appendix: Chizzola trial

Bibliography

Index of Names

Backlist.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

958422296

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004325463 DOI