2015/2016

2017/2018

DM270

M-STO/02 (MODERN HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

LETTERE MODERNE

3°

1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

MAFFI DAVIDE (titolare) - 6 ECTS

A good cognisance of the Early Modern History

Understand and analyze the lack of affirmation of the Protestant Reformation in the Italian peninsula during the sixteenth century

The sixteenth century saw rapidly the affirmation of reformed doctrines in most European countries. An unstoppable advance that soon reached the Italian peninsula. The purpose of the course is to study why the ideals of reformed failed to break into Italian society and the strategies followed by the Church of Rome to eradicate Protestant outbreaks active in some of the ancient Italian states

Lectures

Recommended bibliography for the scholars
For the assiduously participants of the course the lecture of this texts

Massimo Firpo, Riforma protestante ed eresie nell'Italia del Cinquecento. Un profilo storico, Editori Laterza, Roma - Bari, 2008
Massimo Firpo, La presa di potere dell'Inquisizione romana, Editori Laterza, Roma - Bari, 2014

For the not participants, it’s obligatory the lecture of one of this books


Massimo Firpo, Juan de Valdés e la riforma nell'Italia del Cinquecento, Editori Laterza, Roma - Bari, 2016
Massimo Firpo e Fabrizio Biferali, Immagini ed eresie nell'Italia del Cinquecento, Editori Laterza, Roma - Bari, 2016
Delio Cantimori, Eretici italiani del Cinquecento, Einaudi, Torino, 2009

Oral examination

Oral examination