Vernacular Books and Religious Dissent in Early Modern Italy: A Study of the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection at UCLA
The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous religious change in Europe as a whole. Italian Cinquecento culture was profoundly shaped by currents for reform and counter-reform; printed vernacular literature soon came to represent an excellent vehicle for spreading philo-Protestant religious prop...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Iter Press
2021
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In: |
Renaissance and reformation
Year: 2021, Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 51-85 |
IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBJ Italy KDB Roman Catholic Church KDD Protestant Church |
Further subjects: | B
(Counter-)Reformation
B History of ideas B Spiritual Petrarchism B Book History B Nicodemism |
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Summary: | The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous religious change in Europe as a whole. Italian Cinquecento culture was profoundly shaped by currents for reform and counter-reform; printed vernacular literature soon came to represent an excellent vehicle for spreading philo-Protestant religious propaganda, but it became a powerful weapon of the Roman counterpart as well. In this article, I will outline a survey of textual materials preserved in the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection at UCLA, focusing on Italian vernacular works printed between the 1540s and the 1580s. I will consider three aspects of the history of Italian print as related to the Cinquecento religious turmoil: the use of Nicodemite strategies and their effectiveness; the role of Petrarchist poetry as a privileged conduit for evangelizing dissenting doctrinal content; and the development of (para)textual apparatuses intended for instruction and guidance to the reader. |
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ISSN: | 2293-7374 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Renaissance and reformation
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.33137/rr.v44i4.38597 |