The Anointment of Dionisio
Subtitle: Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780271021348
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1500 to c 1600; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; Europe - Italy; Historical - General; Renaissance; Medieval; 16th cent; Biography; Gallo, Dionisio,; Humanists; Italy; Reformation; Venice
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.