The Italian reformation outside Italy : Francesco Pucci's heresy in sixteenth-century Europe

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The Italian reformation outside Italy : Francesco Pucci's heresy in sixteenth-century Europe

by Giorgio Caravale

(Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 246)

Brill, c2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-264) and index

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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 In The Italian Reformation outside Italy, Giorgio Caravale uses previously unpublished documents to reconstruct the life and intellectual career of Francesco Pucci (1543-1597).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. The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS (SEGRETARIATO EUROPEO PER LE PUBBLICAZIONI SCIENTIFICHE), Via Val d'Aposa 7, I-40123 Bologna, Italy - seps@seps.it - www.seps.it

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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 Francois 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

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