1st Edition
Cursed Blessings Sex and Religious Radical Dissent in Early Modern Europe
Umberto Grassi
Introduction: Sexual Nonconformity and Religious Dissent in Early Modern Europe
Part 1: Sex and the body as a form of resistance to Catholic Orthodoxy
Lucia Felici
A Sixteenth-Century Libertine Priest: Francesco Calcagno
Vittorio Frajese
The Disciple whom Jesus Loved
Isabel Harvey
The Venetian Inquisition and the bodies of Nuns. The Trial Against Suor Cecilia Sacrati, 1701-1706
Part 2: Heretical reinterpretations of original sin in Germany and the Netherlands
Dario Gurashi
Decrypting Adam and Eve: Agrippa on Sexuality and Redemption
Gary K. Waite
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent in David Joris’ Radical Spiritualism
Karen E. Hollewand
The Banished Scholar: Beverland, Sex, and Liberty
in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries
Part 3: Between elite discourses and popular innuendos: European erudite libertinism
Jean-Pierre Cavaillé
The Philosophical Meaning of Sexual Transgressions: ‘Libertins Érudit’ and Sodomy
Peter Cryle
The Moral Radicalism of Libertine Dalliance in Eighteenth-Century France
Biography
Umberto Grassi is an independent scholar. He specializes in early modern history and has published on the history of sexuality, religious radical dissent, cultural history, and the history of emotions. He has held research positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and the University of Sydney as a research fellow of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. From 2018 to 2021, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Verona and the University of Maryland. His previous publications include Bathhouses and Riverbanks: Sodomy in a Renaissance Republic (2021).
