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The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Renaissance Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Philip M. J. McNair
Philip M. J. McNair*
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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Between the execution of Gerolamo Savonarola at Florence in May 1498 and the execution of Giordano Bruno at Rome in February 1600, western Christendom was convulsed by the protestant reformation, and the subject of this paper is the effect that that revolution had on the Italy that nourished and martyred those two unique yet representative men: unique in the power and complexity of their personalities, representative because the one sums up the medieval world with all its strengths and weaknesses while the other heralds the questing and questioning modern world in which we live.

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Research Article
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Studies in Church History , Volume 17: Religion and Humanism , 1981 , pp. 149 - 166
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1981

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