What was the legacy of the so-called Italian Reformation? What contribution did Italian humanism make to European developments in irenicism and religious tolerance? In 'The Italian Reformation outside Italy', Giorgio Caravale uses previously unpublished documents to reconstruct the life and intellectual career of Francesco Pucci (1543-1597). Educated in Renaissance Florence, Pucci found his vocation as a prophet in France during the Wars of Religion and embarked on a long period of peregrination, stopping off in Paris, London, Basle, Antwerp, Krakow and Prague before being imprisoned, tried and sentenced to death by the Roman Inquisition three years before Giordano Bruno. His doctrines were judged to be heretical by all religious confessions and his political proposal was a spectacular failure. Caravale presents a rich chapter of sixteenth-century European history whose main features are religious conflict, irenic tension, universalist aspirations and prophetic expectations.
Author(s): Giorgio Caravale
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 246
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 286
City: Leiden
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
1. Becoming a Heretic in Sixteenth-Century Florence: Francesco Pucci and His Intellectual Education 23
1. In the Labyrinth of Sources: Between History and Autobiography 23
2. Florence, the 'Benefit of Christ' and the Academy 40
3. 'A New Theology' 51
2. Francesco Pucci in France during the First Wars of Religion 63
1. Lyons 63
2. Paris and Its Environs. Among Florentine Exiles and Utopian Projects 71
3. An Anti-Roman Polemicist or a Masked 'Papist'? 86
4. Between Heretics and Jesuits. Converting in Europe at the End of the Sixteenth-Century 92
5. Autobiography of an Encounter. John Dee and Edward Kelley 100
3. At the Gates of Paris: Henry IV and the Roman Inquisition 113
1. From Reconciliation to Flight 113
2. Pucci’s Millenarianism 115
3. Conciliarism and Latitudinarianism 123
4. 'Earthly Affairs' and 'Heavenly Matters' 132
4. Among Catholics and Calvinists: Francesco Pucci in Late Sixteenth-Century France 135
1. A Calvinist in 'ligueur' Paris? 135
2. In the Wake of St Thomas 152
3. 'Inhumanely Treated'. A Late Sixteenth-Century Dispute in Paris 155
4. At the Margins of the 'de auxiliis' Controversy 161
5. Jean Hotman and French Irenicism 165
1. A Possible Meeting in Paris 165
2. The Reasons for an Exclusion 170
3. Irenicism or Tolerance? 182
6. The Limits of the Kingdom of God 188
1. 'De Christi servatoris efficacitate' (1592) 188
2. Francesco Pucci and François du Jon: Conflicting Irenicism 191
3. The Lutheran Attack 201
4. The Pelagian Error. The Catholic Reply 205
5. Bruno, Campanella and the Limits of the Kingdom of God 209
Epilogue 218
Conclusion: An Italian Heresy 225
Appendix 1 231
Appendix 2 236
Bibliography 239
Index 265
