What God kept for himself : atheism, sodomy, and radical dissent in Renaissance Italy /

"Umberto Grassi recovers a radical critique, suppressed by the Inquisition. A wave of 16th-18th century Italians claimed that Adam and Eve had angered God by engaging in sodomy-sexual practice reserved for the divine. The heresy was politically potent, buttressing the common belief that elites...

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Main Author: Grassi, Umberto (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachussetts : Harvard University Press, 2026.
Series:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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