Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History

Introduction Fabrizio De Donno and Simon Gilson PART I: BIBLES, SAINTS AND HERESIES IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ITALY 1. Romancing the Gospel: Italian Vernacular Scripture in the Middle Ages; Brenda Deen Schildgen 2. Preaching,Heresy and the Writing of Female Hagiography; Beverly Kienzle and Travis Stevens 3. Michelangelo's 'Last Judgement': a Lutheran Belief?; Ambra Moroncini 4. Exchanging Poetry with Theology: Ludovico Castelvetro between Humanism and Heresy; Stefano Jossa 5. Ferrante Pallavicino's 'La retorica delle puttane' (parody of Cipriano Suarez S. J., 'De arte rhetorica libri tres'): Whores and Metaphors; Letizia Panizza 6. Providential Divining: Heresies and Controversies in Vico's 'Scienza nuova'; Daragh O'Connell PART II: RELIGIOUS EXPANSION AND PLURALISM IN MODERN ITALY 7. Metaliterary Fogazzaro: Bovarysme and Mysticism in Malombra; Olivia Santovetti 8. Catholicism and Neorealism: Zavattini's contribution to Universalia-produced 'Prima Comunione' (Blasetti, 1950); Daniela Treveri-Gennari 9. No New Earth: Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Italian Nuclear-War Literature; Florian Mussgnug 10. Defining the Apocalypse: An Old Word in New Contexts, according to Eco, Baricco, Fo and Fallaci; Gillian Ania 11. Wu Ming's Transnational Reformation: Mythopoesis, Utopia and Global Politics; Fabrizio De Donno 12. Believing in Weakness: Gianni Vattimo's Postmodern Interpretation of Religion; Michael Bacon 13. Silent Revolution in the Country of the Pope: From Catholicism as 'The Religion of Italians' to the Pluralistic 'Italy of Religions'; Stefano Allievi