The Italian Reformation Outside Italy ─ Francesco Pucci's Heresy in Sixteenth-Century Europe

Author Giorgio Caravale presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of the legacy of the Italian Reformation and the contributions of Italian humanism to European religious tolerance as illuminated by the life and writings of sixteenth century Italian prophet Francesco Pucci. The author has organized the chapters that make up the main body of his text in six parts devoted to Francesco Pucci and his intellectual education, Pucci in France during the first wars of religion, Henry IV and the Roman Inquisition, and a wide variety of other related subjects. The author is a faculty member of the University of Roma Tre, Italy. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Giorgio Caravale, Ph.D (2000) University of Rome 'Sapienza', is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Roma Tre. He is the author of many articles and monographs, includingForbidden Prayer. Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance Italy (Ashgate 2011).