Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 837 pages of information about Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 837 pages of information about Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2.

SARPI, Fra Paolo: 
  his birth and parentage, ii. 185;
  his position in the history of Venice, 186;
  his physical constitution, 189;
  moral temperament, 190;
  mental perspicacity, 191;
  discoveries in magnetism and optics, 192;
  studies and conversation, 193;
  early entry into the Order of the Servites, ib.;
  his English type of character, 194;
  denounced to the Inquisition, 195;
  his independent attitude, 196;
  his great love for Venice, 197;
  the interdict of 1606, 198;
  Sarpi’s defence of Venice against the Jesuits, 199 sqq.;
  pamphlet warfare, 201;
  importance of this episode, 202;
  Sarpi’s theory of Church and State, 203;
  boldness of his views, 205;
  compromise of the quarrel of the interdict, ib.;
  Sarpi’s relations with Fra Fulgenzio, 207;
  Sarpi warned by Schoppe of danger to his life, 208;
  attacked by assassins, 209;
  the Stilus Romanae Curiae, 211;
  history of the assassins, 212;
  complicity of the Papal Court, 213;
  other attempts on Sarpi’s life, 214 sq.;
  his opinion of the instigators, 216;
  his so called heresy, 218;
  his work as Theologian to the Republic, 219;
  his minor writings, 221;
  his opposition to Papal Supremacy, ib.;
  the History of the Council of Trent, 222;
  its sources, 223;
  its argument, 224;
  deformation, not reformation, wrought by the Council, 225;
  Sarpi’s impartiality, 226;
  was Sarpi a Protestant? 228;
  his religious opinions, 229;
  views on the possibility of uniting Christendom, 230;
  hostility to ultra-papal Catholicism, 231;
  critique of Jesuitry, 233;
  of ultramontane education, 235;
  the Tridentine Seminaries, 235;
  Sarpi’s dread lest Europe should succumb to Rome, 237;
  his last days, 238;
  his death contrasted with that of Giordano Bruno, 239 n.;
  his creed, 239;
  Sarpi a Christian Stoic, 240.

SARPI, citations from his writings, on the Papal
  interpretation of the Tridentine decrees, i. 131 n.;
  details of the nepotism of the Popes, 156 n., 157 n.;
  denunciation of the Index, 197 n., 206, 208 n.;
  on the revival of polite learning, 215;
  on the political philosophy of the statutes of the Index, 221;
  on the Inquisition rules regarding emigrants from Italy, 227 sq.;
  his invention of the name ‘Diacatholicon,’ 231;
  on the deflection of Jesuitry from Loyola’s spirit and intention, 248;
  on the secret statutes of the Jesuits, 278;
  denunciations of Jesuit morality, 289 n.;
  on the murder of Henri IV., 297 n.;
  on the instigators of the attempts on his own life, ii. 215 n.;
  on the attitude of the Roman Court towards murder, 216;
  on the literary polemics of James I., 229;
  on Jesuit education and the Tridentine Seminaries, 237.

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