Kenneth A. Loparo & S. Gilson 
Beyond Catholicism 
Heresy, Mysticism, and Apocalypse in Italian Culture

The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities.

Table of Content

Introduction Fabrizio De Donno and Simon Gilson PART I: BIBLES, SAINTS AND HERESIES IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ITALY 1. Romancing the Gospel: Italian Vernacular Scripture in the Middle Ages; Brenda Deen Schildgen 2. Preaching, Heresy and the Writing of Female Hagiography; Beverly Kienzle and Travis Stevens 3. Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgement’: a Lutheran Belief? ; Ambra Moroncini 4. Exchanging Poetry with Theology: Ludovico Castelvetro between Humanism and Heresy; Stefano Jossa 5. Ferrante Pallavicino’s ‘La retorica delle puttane’ (parody of Cipriano Suarez S. J., ‘De arte rhetorica libri tres’): Whores and Metaphors ; Letizia Panizza 6. Providential Divining: Heresies and Controversies in Vico’s ‘Scienza nuova’; Daragh O’Connell PART II: RELIGIOUS EXPANSION AND PLURALISM IN MODERN ITALY 7. Metaliterary Fogazzaro: Bovarysme and Mysticism in Malombra; Olivia Santovetti 8. Catholicism and Neorealism: Zavattini’s contribution to Universalia-produced ‘Prima Comunione’ (Blasetti, 1950); Daniela Treveri-Gennari 9. No New Earth: Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Italian Nuclear-War Literature; Florian Mussgnug 10. Defining the Apocalypse: An Old Word in New Contexts, according to Eco, Baricco, Fo and Fallaci; Gillian Ania 11. Wu Ming’s Transnational Reformation: Mythopoesis, Utopia and Global Politics; Fabrizio De Donno 12. Believing in Weakness: Gianni Vattimo’s Postmodern Interpretation of Religion; Michael Bacon 13. Silent Revolution in the Country of the Pope: From Catholicism as ‘The Religion of Italians’ to the Pluralistic ‘Italy of Religions’; Stefano Allievi

About the author

Brenda Deen Schildgen, University of California Davis, USA Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Harvard University, USA Travis Allen Stevens, Divinity School, Harvard University, USA Letizia Panizza, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ambra Moroncini, Sussex University, UK Daragh O’Connell, University College Cork, Ireland Stefano Jossa, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Olivia Santovetti, Leeds University, UK Daniela Treveri-Gennari, Oxford Brookes University, UK Clodagh Brook, Birmingham University, UK Florian Mussgnug, University College, London, UK Gillian Ania, Salford University, UK Michael Bacon, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Stefano Allievi, Padua University, Italy