Prierias: The Life and Works of Silvestro Mazzolini Da Prierio (1456-1527)

by Michael Tavuzzi

The Italian Dominican friar Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio (1456-1527), known as Prierias, is chiefly remembered as the church official designated to respond to Luther's 95 theses of December 1517--a response blamed for fanning the flames of the Reformation throughout Europe. In Prierias , Michael Tavuzzi presents the first full biography of this little-known, yet eminent, sixteenth-century ecclesiastic, as well as an account of his wide-ranging literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822319764
• ISBN13: 9780822319764
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.6"