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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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachussetts :
Harvard University Press,
2026.
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| Series: | I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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Table of Contents:
- Atheism and sodomy in the Garden of Eden
- Tommaso Campanella in Naples
- Sexual morality in post-Tridentine Catholicism
- Sex and cross-cultural interactions
- Esoteric private libraries
- Hadriaan Beverland's On original sin
- French translations
- Original sin, sexuality, and female independence.