Foreword; Juan de Valdés from Spain to Italy; Italy and the Reformation; Valdesianism and the ‘spirituali’: an Italian Reformation?; The radical heritage; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Having taught in the University of Cagliari and Turin since 1986, Massimo Firpo is now Professor of Early Modern History in the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. A member of the Accademia delle Scienze of Turin and of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, co-director of the Rivista storica italiana, he has been fellow of the Newberry Library in Chicago and Cornell University in Ithaca (NY), and gave the Isaiah Berlin Lectures in Oxford in 2006. His studies focus on the cultural and religious European history in the sixteenth Century, and particularly on the Italian Reformation, the Roman Inquisition and the relationship between art and religious dissent.
"For students of Reformed theology, Juan de Valdés and the Italian Reformation gives wonderful background to theologians such as Peter Martyr Vermigli and Bernardio Ochino, but it also provides great insight into the alumbrados or spirituali and the various forms of Erasmian reform and evangelism." – Jason Zuidema, Calvin Theological Journal, 2016
"The principle merits of this book are (1) its updated perspectives on the writing and basic tenets of Juan de Valdés and his followers, (2) its detailed attention to the activity and ideology in heretical circles that rippled out from Valdés' productive and influential last years (1535-41) in Naples, and (3) its admirably organized overview of the scope and historiography of reforming efforts on the Italian peninsula. With this volume, the important scholarship of Massimo Firpo is now available in English to a new generation of Reformation scholars." - Jay Atkinson, Starr King School for the Ministry
