Giulia Gonzaga : a gentlewoman in the Italian R eformation / Susanna Peyronel Rambaldi ; translated by Richard Bates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peyronel Rambaldi, Susanna, 1942- author.

Contributor:

Bates, Richard (Translator), translator.

Hiram G. Haney Fund.

Series:

Viella history, art, and humanities collection ; 11.

Viella history, art and humanities collection ; 11

Standardized Title:

Gentildonna irrequieta. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Gonzaga-Colonna, Giulia di, duchessa di Traetto, 1513?-1566.

Nobility--Italy--Biography.

Nobility.

Intellectual life.

Religion.

Italy.

Reformation--Italy.

Reformation.

Gonzaga-Colonna, Giulia di.

Gonzaga-Colonna, Giulia di, duchessa di Traetto, 1513?-1566--Religion.

Italy--Church history--16th century.

Church history.

Italy--History--1492-1559.

History.

Italy--Intellectual life--16th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

289 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Roma : Viella, 2021.

Summary:

The life of Giulia Gonzaga - a leading figure in a delicate time of transition in 16th-century Italian political, cultural and religious history - brings this period and its dramatic turning-points alive. A favoured disciple of Juan de Valdes and at the centre of his group of followers, as well as a loyal friend of the protonotary Pietro Carnesecchi, who was condemned for heresy and executed, Giulia Gonzaga was strongly tied to her class, her powerful dynasty and to family and political intrigues. Under the shadow of her family, she enjoyed a heterodox experience shared by many others, men and women alike, who were protagonists of an intellectual and spiritual dissent that was harshly repressed by the Church of Rome. Through the life of a woman, this book recounts the shifts in the political balance of power in Italy in the early years of Spanish dominion and how they mixed with religious dissent and with attempts to change the direction of the Church. It also recounts the relationships, friendships and solidarities of an aristocracy, male and female, that sought to play a role in the bitter conflicts that had emerged in Italian society as the Reformation spread throughout Europe.

Notes:

"First published in Italian as 'Una gentildonna irrequieta. Giulia Gonzaga fra reti familiari e relazioni eterodosse', Rome 2012."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hiram G. Haney Fund.

ISBN:

9788833137636

8833137635

OCLC:

1266312887

Publisher Number:

99988528583