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Massimo Firpo
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Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Group
Published
March 2015
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Author
Massimo Firpo
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Group
Published
March 2015
£169.07
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Juan de Valdas and the Italian Reformation
Today's Price £169.07
Juan de ValdA(c)s played a pivotal role in the febrile atmosphere of sixteenth-century Italian religious debate. Fleeing his native Spain after the publication in 1529 of a book condemned by the Spanish Inquisition, he settled in Rome as a political agent of the emperor Charles V and then in Naples, where he was at the centre of a remarkable circle of literary and spiritual men and women involved in the religious crisis of those years, including Peter Martyr Vermigli, Marcantonio Flaminio, Bernardino Ochino and Giulia Gonzaga. Although his death in 1541 marked the end of this group, ValdA(c)sa (TM)s writings were to have a decisive role in the following two decades, when they were sponsored and diffused by important cardinals such as Reginald Pole and Giovanni Morone, both papal legates to the Council of Trent. The most famous book of the Italian Reformation, the Beneficio di Cristo, translated in many European languages, was based on ValdA(c)sa (TM) thought, and the Roman Inquisition was very soon convinced that he had a "infected the whole of Italya (TM).
In this book Massimo Firpo traces the origins of ValdA(c)sa (TM) religious experience in Erasmian Spain and in the movement of the alumbrados, and underlines the large influence of his teachings after his death all over Italy and beyond. In so doing he reveals the originality of the Italian Reformation and its influence in the radicalism of many religious exiles in Switzerland and Eastern Europe, with their anti-Trinitarians and finally Socinian outcomes. Based upon two extended essays originally published in Italian, this book provides a full up-dated and revised English translation that outlines a new perspective of the Italian religious history in the years of the Council of Trent, from the Sack of Rome to the triumph of the Roman Inquisition, reconstructing and rethinking it not only as a failed expansion of the Protestant Reformation, but as having its own peculiar originality. As such it will be welcomed by all scholars wishing to further their understanding of Italian spiritual reform, and its effect upon the wider currents of the Reformation.
Author
Massimo Firpo
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Group
Published
March 2015
Edition
New edition
Weight
568g
Page Count
277
Dimensions
156 x 234 x 18 mm
ISBN
9781472439772
ISBN-10
1472439775
Eden Code
4319497
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Author/Creator: Massimo Firpo
ISBN: 9781472439772
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Release Date: March 2015
Weight: 568g
Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Eden Code: 4319497