Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City Volume 16

by John Jeffries Martin

Book Overview

How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result is a profoundly important contribution to Renaissance and Reformation studies.

Martin offers a vivid re-creation of the social and cultural worlds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520077431
• ISBN13: 9780520077430
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"