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What God kept for himself : atheism, sodomy, and radical dissent in Renaissance Italy / Umberto Grassi.
Van Pelt - New Book Display HQ72.I8 G733 2026
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grassi, Umberto, author.
- Series:
- I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sodomy--Italy--History.
- Sodomy.
- Sodomy--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sin, Original--History of doctrines.
- Sin, Original.
- Sex customs--Italy--History.
- Sex customs.
- Trials (Sodomy)--Italy--Case studies.
- Trials (Sodomy).
- Sodomy--Law and legislation--Italy--History.
- Atheism--History--Modern period, 1500-.
- Atheism.
- Physical Description:
- 229 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachussetts : Harvard University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Umberto Grassi recovers a radical critique, suppressed by the Inquisition. A wave of 16th-18th century Italians claimed that Adam and Eve had angered God by engaging in sodomy-sexual practice reserved for the divine. The heresy was politically potent, buttressing the common belief that elites invented Christian morality to enforce social control"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Atheism and sodomy in the Garden of Eden
- Tommaso Campanella in Naples
- Sexual morality in post-Tridentine Catholicism
- Sex and cross-cultural interactions
- Esoteric private libraries
- Hadriaan Beverland's On original sin
- French translations
- Original sin, sexuality, and female independence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674302860
- 0674302869
- OCLC:
- 1521387939
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