Reform before the Reformation : Vincenzo Querini and the religious Renaissance in Italy
"An important aspect of the Italian Renaissance was church reform. This book examines the nature of that reform - especially in Venice. Florence and Rome - as viewed through the unpublished manuscripts of a Venetian nobleman who became a Camaldolese hermit: Vincenzo Querini (1478-1514). This book sets Querini's personal journey to reform in the context of Venetian society, as well as against the backdrop of political crisis, cultural revival, and monastic renaissance in Italy generally. Querini's attempt to reform himself, the Roman Catholic Church, and the whole of Christendom are of interest to historians seeking to revise the chronology of early modern church reform since he employed a range of scriptural, humanist, conciliar, monastic, and mystical methods that had medieval antecedents but were also imitated by reformers after the Reformation."--Jacket
Church history
xvi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9789004123793, 9004123792
48144436
Introduction
Catholic reform and the Reformation
Reform before the Reformation
Vincenzo Querini and the church in Renaissance Italy
Chapter One : The contemplative in action
The Italian wars
Humanist studies
Political duties
Chapter Two : Personal reform : How to be a Renaissance hermit
Nobles and monks
Action and contemplation
The naked Christ
Salvation in the city
Chapter three : Monastic reform
Wayward monks and wandering hermits
The hermits and the world
Chapter four : Reform by council
The challenge of the Schismatic council
Papal authority and reform
Conclusion
Chapter five : Reform by the word and by the sword
The fifth Lateran concil (1512-17)
Reform by the word
Reform by the sword
Humanism and scriptural studies
Chapter six : Prophecy and reform
Prophets and hermits
Hidden and forbidden knowledge
Hermits and prophecy
Chapter seven : Catholicism and reform
The death of Querini
Venice and the Spirituali
Italian cathoilc reformers
Conclusion