Venice and the Radical Reformation : : Italian Anabaptism and Antitrinitarianism in European Context / / Riccarda Suitner.

• Superior document: Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS)
• VerfasserIn: Suitner, Riccarda,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Refo500 academic studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- 0. Introduction -- 0.1 The Venetian setting -- 0.2 Before Sozzini and the "Italian Heretics" -- 0.3 From Paduan medical milieux to pro-Judaism: the specificities of the Venetian Radical Reformation -- 0.4 The sources: a few preliminary observations -- 1. The landscape of dissent -- 1.1 Embracing the (Radical) Reformation in sixteenth-century Venice -- 1.1.1 The good citizen and the heterodox self -- 1.1.2 Becoming Anabaptist -- 1.1.3 Some figures -- 1.2 Places -- 1.2.1 The German Fondaco -- 1.2.2 Gardens, woods, universities, churches -- 1.2.3 Private houses -- 1.2.4 The collegia vicentina -- 1.2.5 Prisons -- 1.3 Punishing the Unknown -- 1.3.1 The danger of galleys -- 1.3.2 Rome and Venice: the two Inquisitions -- 1.3.3 From fine to death -- 1.3.4 Informers and inquisitors -- 1.3.5 The phantom defendants -- 1.4 The organisation of a new church -- 1.4.1 Points of reference: people and texts -- 1.4.2 A new lifestyle -- 1.4.3 The Carnival and its masks -- 1.4.4 The preparation of the council -- 2. In search of doctrinal uniformity -- 2.1 The meeting of 1550 -- 2.1.1 The Venetian confessions of faith: Anabaptism and Antitrinitarianism -- 2.1.2 Winners and losers -- 2.1.3 The Inquisition's perspective: barriers and ambiguity -- 2.2 The Italian way -- 2.2.1 The classic revisited: adult baptism -- 2.2.2 Venice and Moravia -- 2.2.3 The Lord's Supper and the imitatio Christi -- 2.2.4 Sin and Hell -- 2.3 Italian Anabaptists: isolated minority or international Reformers? -- 2.3.1 The mobility factor -- 2.3.2 A community of brothers and sisters -- 3. Radical Reformers at the University of Padua -- 3.1 Students and teachers -- 3.1.1 Medical students at the Facultas artistarum.

3.1.2 Cadaver dissections and conversations about religion -- 3.1.3 The diaspora of Paduan physicians -- 3.2 The Soul, the blood, and the Trinity -- 3.2.1 A medical theory of Incarnation -- 3.2.2 Servet and Padua -- 3.2.3 Agostino Doni and Servet -- 3.2.4 Constantino Tessera's doctrine on the soul -- 3.3 The sleeping souls -- 3.3.1 A forgotten doctrine -- 3.3.2 Mortalism and materialism -- 3.3.3 A literal or metaphorical meaning? -- 3.3.4 The Fifth Lateran Council -- 3.3.5 Venice and its surroundings -- 3.3.6 European echoes -- 4. Entangled religions -- 4.1 Germany, the Iberian Peninsula, Naples: Judaism and the Radical Reformation outside Venice -- 4.1.1 Judaism and Anabaptism in the German-speaking territories -- 4.1.2 Servet and Judaism -- 4.1.3 Juan de Valdés and the Naples-Venice connection -- 4.2 Entangled religions in a Renaissance Republic -- 4.2.1 Jews, conversos, radical Reformers -- 4.2.2 The cloistered nuns of Udine and their Jewish-Antitrinitarian utopia -- 4.2.3 The fascination of the Kabbalah -- 4.2.4 The University of Padua as a contact zone between Jews and radical Reformers -- 4.3 Venice, Poland and Transylvania -- 4.3.1 Continuing the theme -- 4.3.2 The supremacy of the Old Testament -- 4.4 Antitrinitarianism and Islam: from Venice to the East -- 4.4.1 Venetian 'heresy' and Muslim erudition -- 4.4.2 Prisoners and translators -- 5. Epilogue -- 5.1 The defeat -- 5.2 The Venetian Radical Reformation, Socinianism, and the Enlightenment -- Bibliography -- Manuscript sources -- Printed sources -- Secondary literature -- Index.