Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City
Martin has given us in this exquisitely written and elegantly published volume nothing less than a fully integratedhumanisticmodel of history... He views his subject through both wide-angle and close-up lenses with enough illumination to leave the reader bedazzled.(Charles Scribner III)Martin offers an elegant, undogmatic, and beautifully written account of three currents of heresy that flowed through sixteenth-century Venice.(Brian PullanJournal of Interdisciplinary History)This insightful study of municipal culture and the interaction of religion, social forces, and political programs and institutions belongs in all college, university, and seminary libraries.(Religious Studies Review)