Renaissance Venice is generally portrayed as a city of harmony
and consensus. This book offers a sharply different view by
highlighting the history of religious dissent in this early modern
city. Drawing on sixteenth-century records from archives of the
Roman Inquisition, John Jeffries Martin reconstructs the social and
cultural worlds of the Venetian heretics--those men and women who
articulated their hopes for religious and political reform. Among
them were Evangelists, Protestants, Anabaptists, Antitrinitarians,
and Millenarians, whose ideologies ranged from moderate to radical.
The protagonists included men and women from all social classes;
but artisans, above all those in the elite crafts, proved
especially likely to give their support to the new reform ideas.
Martin's analysis, which explores the interconnections of religious
beliefs and social experience, offers new perspectives on the
Italian Reformation and demonstrates widespread persistent popular
support for this reform of church and society well after the
establishment of the Roman Inquisition in the 1540s.
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