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Author:   Umberto Grassi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032290874

ISBN 10:   1032290870
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Umberto Grassi Introduction: Sexual Nonconformity and Religious Dissent in Early Modern Europe Part 1: Sex and the body as a form of resistance to Catholic Orthodoxy Lucia Felici A Sixteenth-Century Libertine Priest: Francesco Calcagno Vittorio Frajese The Disciple whom Jesus Loved Isabel Harvey The Venetian Inquisition and the bodies of Nuns. The Trial Against Suor Cecilia Sacrati, 1701-1706 Part 2: Heretical reinterpretations of original sin in Germany and the Netherlands Dario Gurashi Decrypting Adam and Eve: Agrippa on Sexuality and Redemption Gary K. Waite Adam, Eve, and the Serpent in David Joris’ Radical Spiritualism Karen E. Hollewand The Banished Scholar: Beverland, Sex, and Liberty in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries Part 3: Between elite discourses and popular innuendos: European erudite libertinism Jean-Pierre Cavaillé The Philosophical Meaning of Sexual Transgressions: ‘Libertins Érudit’ and Sodomy Peter Cryle The Moral Radicalism of Libertine Dalliance in Eighteenth-Century France

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Umberto Grassi is an independent scholar. He specializes in early modern history and has published on the history of sexuality, religious radical dissent, cultural history, and the history of emotions. He has held research positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and the University of Sydney as a research fellow of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. From 2018 to 2021, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Verona and the University of Maryland. His previous publications include Bathhouses and Riverbanks: Sodomy in a Renaissance Republic (2021).

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