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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) The Catholic Reaction

Name: Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) The Catholic Reaction
Author: John Addington Symonds

by John Addington Symonds

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Renaissance -- Italy Catholic Church -- Italy -- History

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John Addington Symonds’s final two volumes of Renaissance in Italy turn from the political narrative of the first three books to a sweeping examination of the Catholic response to the Reformation. The work opens with an extensive bibliography that situates his study among a host of earlier histories of Italian republics, papal politics, and religious institutions. From there Symonds launches into a detailed outline of his chapters, beginning with the “Spanish Hegemony” and moving through the Council of Trent, the Inquisition, the rise of the Jesuits, and the social and moral upheavals that followed. He frames the period as a transition from the flourishing of Renaissance culture to a “Catholic Revival,” tracing how foreign domination and ecclesiastical reform reshaped the Italian states, their intellectual life, and everyday morality.

Written in the scholarly prose of the late‑19th century, the text combines exhaustive citation with a narrative voice that is both analytical and occasionally polemical. Symonds’s style reflects the Victorian tradition of exhaustive footnoting and a confident, sometimes moralizing, tone. Readers who enjoy dense, source‑rich histories of early modern Europe, particularly those interested in the interplay of politics, religion, and culture in Italy, will find this volume a valuable, if demanding, companion to the earlier parts of the series.

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DAVOS PLATZ: July 1886.

WORKS COMMONLY REFERRED TO IN THE TWO SUCCEEDING VOLUMES OF THIS BOOK.

SISMONDI.--Histoire des Republiques Italiennes du Moyen Age. RANKE.--History of the Popes. 3 vols. English edition: Bohn. CREIGHTON.--History of the Papacy during the Reformation. 2 vols. Macmillan. BOTTA.--Storia d'Italia. Continuata da quella del Guicciardini sino al 1789. FERRARI.--Rivoluzioni d'Italia. 3 vols. QUINET.--Les Revolutions d'Italie. GALLUZZI.--Storia del Granducato di Toscana. PALLAVICINI.--Storia del Concilio Tridentino. SARPI.--Storia del Concilio. Vols. 1 and 2 of Sarpi's Opere. DENNISTOUN'S Dukes of Urbino. 3 vols. ALBERI.--Relazioni degli Ambasciatori Veneti. MUTINELLI.--Storia Arcana ed Aneddotica d'Italia. Raccontata dai Veneti Ambasciatori. 4 vols. Venice. 1858. MUTINELLI.--Annali Urbani di Venezia. LITTA.--Famiglie Celebri Italiane. PHIUPPSON.--La Contre-Revolution Religieuse au XVIme Siecle Bruxelles. 1884. DEJOB.--De l'Influence du Concile de Trente. Paris. 1884. GIORDANI.--Delia Venuta e Dimora in Bologna del Sommo Pontefice Clemente VII. per la Coronazione di Carlo V., Imperatore. Bologna. 1832. BALBI.--Sommario della Storia d'Italia. CANTU.--Gli Eretici d'Italia. 3 vols. Torino. 1866. LLORENTE.--Histoire Critique de I'Inquisition d'Espagne. 4 vols. Paris. 1818. LAVALLEE.--Histoire des Inquisitions Religieuses. 2 vols. Paris. 1808. MCCRIE.--History of the Reformation in Italy. Edinburgh. 1827. TIRABOSCHI.--Storia della Letteratura Italiana. DE SANCTIS.--Storia della Letteratura Italiana. 2 vols. SETTEMBRINI.--Storia della Letteratura Italiana. 3 vols. CANTU.--Storia della Letteratura Italiana. Decreta, etc., Societatis Jesu. Avignon. 1827. CANTU.--Storia della Diocesi di Como. 2 vols. DANDOLO.--La Signora di Monza e le Streghe del Tirolo. Milano. 1855. BONGHI.--Storia di Lucrezia Buonvisi. Lucca. 1864. Archivio Storico Italiano. BANDI LUCCHESI.--Bologna: Romagnoli. 1863. BERTOLOTTI.--Francesco Cenci e la sua Famiglia. Firenze. 1877. GNOLI.--Vittoria Accoramboni. Firenze: Le Monnier. 1870. DAELLI.--Lorenzino de'Medici. Milano. 1862. DE STENDHAL.--Chroniques et Nouvelles. Paris. 1855. GIORDANO BRUNO.--Opere Italiane (Wagner). 2 vols. Leipzig. 1830. JORDANUS BRUNUS.--Opera Latina. 2 vols. Neapoli. 1879. BRUNO.--Scripta Latina (Gfoerer). Stuttgart. 1836. BERTI.--Vita di Giordano Bruno. Firenze, Torino, Milano. 1868. BRUNNHOFER.--Giordano Bruno's Weltanschauung und Verhangniss. Leipzig. 1882. PAOLO SARPI.--Opere. 6 vols. Helmstat. 1765. FRA FULGENZIO MICANZI--Vita del Sarpi. BIANCHI GIOVINI.--Biografia di Fra Paolo Sarpi. 2 vols. Bruxelles. 1836. Lettere di Fra Paolo Sarpi. 2 vols. Firenze. 1863. CAMPBELL.--Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi. London: Molini and Green. 1869 DEJOB.--Marc-Antoine Muret. Paris: Thorin. 1881. CHRISTIE.--Etienne Dolet. London: Macmillan. 1880. RENOUARD.--Imprimerie des Aides. TORQUATO TASSO.--Opere. Ed. Rosini. 33 vols. Pisa. 1822 and on.

WORKS REFERRED TO IN THIS BOOK.

TASSO.--Le Lettere. Ed. Guasti. 5 vols. Firenze. 1855. CECCHI.--T. Tasso e la Vita Italiana. Firenze. 1877. CECCHI.--T. Tasso. Il Pensiero e le Belle Lettere, etc. Firenze. 1877. D'OVIDIO.--Saggi Critici. Napoli. 1878. MANSO.--Vita di T. Tasso, in Rosini's edition, vol. 33. ROSINI.--Saggio sugli Amori di T. Tasso, in edition cited above, vol. 33. GUARINI.--Il Pastor Fido. Ed. Casella. Firenze: Barbera. 1866. MARINO.--Adone, etc. Napoli. 1861. CHIABRERA.--Ed. Polidori. Firenze: Barbera. 1865. TASSONI.--La Secchia Rapita. Ed. Carducci. Firenze: Barbera 1861. Il Parnaso Italiano. BAINI.--Vita di G. P. L. Palestrina. FELSINA PITTRICE.--2 vols. Bologna. 1841. LANZI.--History of Painting in Italy. English Edition. London. Bohn. Vol. 3.

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

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