Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera

by Edward Muir

Book Overview

In the summer of 1591 students from the University of Padua attacked the local Jesuit college and successfully appealed to the Venetian Senate to intervene on behalf of the university. When the Jesuits were expelled from the Venetian dominion a few years later, religious censorship was virtually eliminated. The result was a remarkable era of cultural innovation that promoted free inquiry in the face of philosophical and theological orthodoxy, advocated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674024818
• ISBN13: 9780674024816
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.3"