Beyond Catholicism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Fabrizio De Donno, Simon Gilson

      Pages 1-12

3. Bibles, Saints, and Heresies in Medieval and Early Modern Italy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Romancing the Gospel: Italian Vernacular Scripture in the Middle Ages

      • Brenda Deen Schildgen

      Pages 15-31

   3. Preaching, Heresy, and the Writing of Female Hagiography

      • Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Travis Allen Stevens

      Pages 33-53

   4. Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: A Lutheran Belief?

      • Ambra Moroncini

      Pages 55-76

   5. Exchanging Poetry with Theology: Ludovico Castelvetro between Humanism and Heresy

      • Stefano Jossa

      Pages 77-103

   6. Ferrante Pallavicino’s La Retorica Delle Puttane (1642): Blasphemy, Heresy, and Alleged Pornography

      • Letizia Panizza

      Pages 105-124

   7. “Providential Divining”: Heresies and Controversies in Giambattista Vico’s Scienza Nuova

      • Daragh O’Connell

      Pages 125-144

4. Religious Expansion and Pluralism in Modern Italy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Metaliterary Fogazzaro: Bovarysme and Mysticism in Malombra (1881)

      • Olivia Santovetti

      Pages 147-169

   3. Catholicism and Neorealism: Zavattini’s Contribution to Universalia-Produced Prima Comunione (Blasetti, 1950)

      • Daniela Treveri Gennari

      Pages 171-193

   4. No New Earth: Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Italian Nuclear-War Literature

      • Florian Mussgnug

      Pages 195-215

   5. Defining the Apocalypse: An Old Word in New Contexts, According to Eco, Baricco, Fo, and Fallaci

      • Gillian Ania

      Pages 217-238

   6. Wu Ming’s Reformation: Mythopoesis, Utopia, and Global Politics

      • Fabrizio De Donno

      Pages 239-271

   7. Believing in Weakness: Gianni Vattimo’s Postmodernist Interpretation of Christianity

      • Michael Bacon

      Pages 273-286

   8. Silent Revolution in the Country of the Pope: From Catholicism as “The Religion of Italians” to the Pluralistic “Italy of Religion”

      • Stefano Allievi

      Pages 287-313

5. Back Matter

   Pages 315-332

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The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities.

• apocalyptic
• Expansion
• Martin Luther
• Middle Ages
• pluralism
• reform
• reformation
• religion
• revolution
• Utopia

to come

Brenda Deen Schildgen, University of California Davis, USA Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Harvard University, USA Travis Allen Stevens, Divinity School, Harvard University, USA Letizia Panizza, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ambra Moroncini, Sussex University, UK Daragh O'Connell, University College Cork, Ireland Stefano Jossa, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Olivia Santovetti, Leeds University, UK Daniela Treveri-Gennari, Oxford Brookes University, UK Clodagh Brook, Birmingham University, UK Florian Mussgnug, University College, London, UK Gillian Ania, Salford University, UK Michael Bacon, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Stefano Allievi, Padua University, Italy

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