The Italian Reformation Outside Italy

Francesco Pucci's Heresy in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Pp Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-24491-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 246, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

What was the legacy of the so-called Italian Reformation? What contribution did Italian humanism make to European developments in irenicism and religious tolerance? In The Italian Reformation outside Italy, Giorgio Caravale uses previously unpublished documents to reconstruct the life and intellectual career of Francesco Pucci (1543-1597). Educated in Renaissance Florence, Pucci found his vocation as a prophet in France during the Wars of Religion and embarked on a long period of peregrination, stopping off in Paris, London, Basle, Antwerp, Krakow and Prague before being imprisoned, tried and sentenced to death by the Roman Inquisition three years before Giordano Bruno. His doctrines were judged to be heretical by all religious confessions and his political proposal was a spectacular failure. Caravale presents a rich chapter of sixteenth-century European history whose main features are religious conflict, irenic tension, universalist aspirations and prophetic expectations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caravale, Giorgio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Becoming a Heretic in Sixteenth Century Florence. Francesco Pucci and his Intellectual Education.

1. In the labyrinth of sources: between history and autobiography
2. Florence, the "Benefit of Christ" and the Academy
3. "A new theology"

Chapter 2. Francesco Pucci in France during the first Wars of Religion

1. Lyons
2. Paris and its environs. Among Florentine exiles and utopian projects
3. An anti-Roman polemicist or a masked “Papist”?
4. Between Heretics and Jesuits. Converting in Europe at the End of the Sixteenth-Century.
5. Autobiography of an encounter. John Dee and Edward Kelley

Chapter 3. At the gates of Paris. Henry IV and the Roman Inquisition

1. From reconciliation to flight
2. Pucci's millenarism
3. Conciliarism and Latitudinarianism
4. “Earthly affairs” and “heavenly matters”

Chapter 4. Amid Catholics and Calvinists. Francesco Pucci in Late Sixteenth-Century France

1. A Calvinist in ligueur Paris?
2. In the wake of Saint Thomas
3. 'Inhumanly treated'. A late sixteenth-century dispute in Paris
4. At the margins of the "De auxiliis" controversy

Chapter 5. Jean Hotman and French Irenicism

1. A possible meeting in Paris
2. The reasons for an exclusion
3. Irenicism or tolerance?

Chapter 6. The limits of the Kingdom of God

1. Francesco Pucci and François Du Jon: Conflicting Irenicisms
2. The Lutheran Attack
3. Pelagius'error. The Catholic reply
4. Bruno, Campanella and the Limits of the Kingdom of God

Epilogue

Conclusion. An Italian Heresy

Appendix

Bibliography

Index of names

Über Autor(innen)

Giorgio Caravale, PhD (2000), is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Roma Tre. He is the author of Forbidden Prayer: Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance Italy (Ashgate, 2011), Predicazione e Inquisizione nell’Italia del Cinquecento (Il Mulino, 2012), Storia di una doppia censura (Edizioni della Normale, 2013), George L. Mosse’s Italy (ed. with L. Benadusi, Palgrave, 2014), and Beyond the Inquisition: Ambrogio Catarino Politi and the Origins of the Counter-Reformation (Notre Dame UP, forthcoming).