Università Roma Tre

The course will initially investigate principal questions regarding the political, religious, cultural and social structures that resulted in the breakdown of Christian unity, in the first decades of the sixteenth century. This will be followed by a study of the way in which the Roman church reacted to the Reform movement focusing in particular on the proto-inquisitorial activities of the Theatine order, which was founded in 1524 by Gian Pietro Carafa, the defender of Catholic orthodoxy.

1) E. Bonora, La controriforma, Bari-Roma, Laterza

2) L. Schorn-Schütte, La riforma protestante, Bologna, il Mulino

3) A. Vanni, «Fare diligente inquisitione». Gian Pietro Carafa e le origini dei chierici regolari teatini, Roma, Viella