Overview

Based primarily on Inquisition trial records from all parts of the Italian peninsula, this work illustrates the broad diffusion of Erasmus' ideas in Italy. Silvana Seidel Menchi's protagonists are not the sophisticated intellectuals previously linked to the ""prince of humanists"", but rather the shoemakers and druggists, goldsmiths and carpenters, weavers and soldiers, notaries and schoolmasters, priests and friars, physicians and students, whose reading of Erasmus' works and acceptance of his message both enriched and complicated their lives. Italian Erasmians, like all Italian philo-Protestants, confronted an implacable adversary, the Roman Church and its Inquisition. Hence, theirs was a destiny of marginalization and persecution.

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'.. .ein zentraler Beitrag zur Geschichte der evangelischen Bewegung in Italien.'<br>Wolfgang Reinhard, Zeitschrift f]r Historische Forschung, 1996.<br>

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Silvana Seidel Menchi is Professor of Modern History at Trient University. Numerous publications on Francesco Guicciardini, Erasmus and the Italian Reformation.

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