Renaissance Inquisitors: Dominican Inquisitors and Inquisitorial Districts in Northern Italy, 1474-1527

by Michael Tavuzzi

During the Renaissance there was no centralized Inquisition in northern Italy until Pope Paul III founded the Roman Inquisition in 1542, but there was a dense network of autonomous papal inquisitors. Based on extensive archival research, this study investigates the life of the Dominican friars from whom these inquisitors were mostly drawn. It focuses on a selection of hitherto almost unknown but representative inquisitors to cast new light on their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004160949
• ISBN13: 9789004160941
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.7"