An edition of The anointment of Dionisio (2001)
Anointment of Dionisio
Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy
By Marion Leathers Kuntz
Publish Date
2001
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Language
eng
Pages
455
Description:
"In 1566 a flamboyant Frenchman who called himself Dionisio Gallo mesmerized crowds of onlookers as he preached in the courtyard of the ducal palace in Venice. Believing he had been anointed by the Virgin, he delivered a message of reform of church and society. Soon he was arrested, tried before the Inquisition, and banished. In The Anointment of Dionisio, Marion Leathers Kuntz tells the bizarre tale of this itinerant preacher, using his story to illuminate the checkered political and religious landscape of Counter-Reformation Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
subjects: Reformation, Humanists, Biography, Church renewal, Social reformers, Intellectual life
People: Dionisio Gallo (16th cent)