One of the great European publishing centers, Venice produced half or more of all books printed in Italy during the sixteenth-century. Drawing on the records of the Venetian Inquisition, which survive almost complete, Paul F. Grendler considers the effectiveness of censorship im…
The religious persecution and intellectual intolerance of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries compelled many heterodox groups and thinkers to resort to misdirection, hidden meaning, secrecy, and deceit. In this highly unusual interpretation, Perez Zagorin traces the theory a…
"Issu d'un programme de recherche franco-italien initié en 2008 sous l'égide de l'École française de Rome, de l'Università degli Studi di Parma et de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, ce volume explore un des paradoxes majeurs du catholicisme moderne : alors qu'il revendique une parf…
Issu d'un programme de recherche franco-italien initié en 2008 sous l'égide de l'École française de Rome, de l'Università degli Studi di Parma et de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, ce volume explore un des paradoxes majeurs du catholicisme moderne : alors qu'il revendique une parfa…
A thirty-six lecture course that examines the people, ideas, and events that transformed Western Christianity during the 16th and 17th centuries.
A thirty-six lecture course that examines the people, ideas, and events that transformed Western Christianity during the 16th and 17th centuries.