Italian Reformation Outside Italy

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).

“Caravale’s masterful and well-researched study strengthens the link between Italian Humanism and the notion of tolerance that was to become a prime feature of Enlightenment thinking: a necessary work for students of intellectual history.”Damon Di Mauro, Gordon College. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 711-712. "The book’s excellent introduction and bold conclusion leave no doubt about its theme: Pucci was not the isolated heretic of earlier scholarship, but should be set in the great tradition of radical reformers, both within Italy and outside it. [...] Caravale’s own seriousness about this disappointed wanderer pervades his immensely scholarly book. [...] Caravale’s grand themes are illuminating, as is his colourful depiction of the naïve and changeable Pucci: he is made part of a whole storm-tossed society living through the trauma—and the hope—generated by schism and ‘reform’. [...] A great achievement."M. Anne Overell, Durham University. In: English Historical Review, Vol. 132, Issue 558 (December 2017).“Cette belle biographie intellectuelle d’un personnage éminemment original pour son époque est aussi un vrai livre d’histoire. Tout au long de son analyse fine et argumentée des idées de Pucci, Caravale veille à ne jamais les détacher de leur contexte d’élaboration et de diffusion. Et ce n’est pas la moindre qualité de cet ouvrage très réussi.”Hugues Daussy, Université de Franche-Comté. In: Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. 41, No. 3 (summer 2018), pp. 206-208.

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Becoming a Heretic in Sixteenth Century Florence. Francesco Pucci and his Intellectual Education.1. In the labyrinth of sources: between history and autobiography2. Florence, the "Benefit of Christ" and the Academy 3. "A new theology"Chapter 2. Francesco Pucci in France during the first Wars of Religion1. Lyons2. 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 KelleyChapter 3. At the gates of Paris. Henry IV and the Roman Inquisition1. From reconciliation to flight2. Pucci's millenarism3. Conciliarism and Latitudinarianism4. “Earthly affairs” and “heavenly matters”Chapter 4. Amid Catholics and Calvinists. Francesco Pucci in Late Sixteenth-Century France1. A Calvinist in ligueur Paris?2. In the wake of Saint Thomas3. «Inhumanly treated». A late sixteenth-century dispute in Paris 4. At the margins of the "De auxiliis" controversy Chapter 5. Jean Hotman and French Irenicism1. A possible meeting in Paris2. The reasons for an exclusion3. Irenicism or tolerance?Chapter 6. The limits of the Kingdom of God1. Francesco Pucci and François Du Jon: Conflicting Irenicisms2. The Lutheran Attack3. Pelagius'error. The Catholic reply4. Bruno, Campanella and the Limits of the Kingdom of GodEpilogueConclusion. An Italian HeresyAppendixBibliographyIndex of names