| Giulia Gonzaga and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century Italy Contributor(s): Russell, Camilla (Author) |
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ISBN: 2503518079 ISBN-13: 9782503518077 Publisher: Brepols Publishers OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Hardcover Language: Italian Published: May 2006 Annotation: Giulia Gonzaga (1513-66) was renowned throughout sixteenth-century Italy as a model of pious widowhood and of female beauty. Yet over three decades she sustained a risky friendship and personal correspondence with Pietro Carnesecchi (1508-67), the one-time papal favourite who became infamous for his heretical beliefs and religious networks. Indeed, Carnesecchi was condemned to death by the Tribunal of the Roman Inquisition, implicated in part by evidence of his correspondence with donna Giulia. This major new study traces the evolution of donna Giulia's unorthodox religious ideas and associations. Considered alongside inquisitorial trial records and contemporary religious treatises, donna Giulia's written dialogue with Carnesecchi, and others, vividly reflects the religious tensions of mid-sixteenth-century Italy. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 274.506 |
| Series: Brepols Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.56" W x 9.67" (1.34 lbs) 237 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
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| Publisher Description: Giulia Gonzaga (1513-66) was renowned throughout sixteenth-century Italy as a model of pious widowhood and of female beauty. Yet over three decades she sustained a risky friendship and personal correspondence with Pietro Carnesecchi (1508-67), the one-time papal favourite who became infamous for his heretical religious beliefs and associations. Indeed, Carnesecchi was condemned to death by the Tribunal of the Roman Inquisition, implicated in part by evidence of his correspondence with donna Giulia. This major new study traces the evolution of donna Giulia's unorthodox religious ideas and networks. Considered alongside inquisitorial trial records and contemporary religious treatises, donna Giulia's written dialogue with Carnesecchi and others, vividly reflects the religious tensions of mid-sixteenth-century Italy. Giulia Gonzaga and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century Italy details donna Giulia's important contribution to the exchange and currency of reformist ideas amongst an intellectual elite of women and men, clergy and laity that extended through the Italian peninsula and beyond. |