1990, ISBN: 9780691008356

Princeton, University Press, XVIII, 208 p. Paperback. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / A good and clean copy without markings. - CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INTROD… Mehr…

Princeton, University Press, XVIII, 208 p. Paperback. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / A good and clean copy without markings. - CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER Prophecies and the Italian Wars Prophecy and History Popular Print Prophecies The Circulation of Prophecy in Manuscript The Role of the Cantastorie Italian Wars from the Descent of Charles VIII to Agnadello in Popular Prophecy "Prophecies in Mosaics" in the Basilica of San Marco The War of Cambrai in Prophetic Publications CHAPTER 2 Monsters, Divination, and Propaganda in Broadsheets Signs and Popular Divination On the Meaning of Monsters The Monster of Ravenna: How the News Got Around A Genealogy of Images Political Uses of the Monster The Monster of Bologna: A Different Political Science The Roman Career of the monstra and the Reasons Thereof CHAPTER 3 Apparitions as Signs: The Kings of the Dead on the Battleground of Agnadello Ghostly Combatants in the Bergamo Countryside Supernatural Visions and Visions of Battles "Littera de le maravigliose battaglie" The Furious Horde of the Dead of Agnadello The Construction of a Myth Letters and Pamphlets in Italy and in Europe From Myth to Propaganda 79 From Folk Culture to Leo X CHAPTER 4 The Apocalyptical Preaching of Andrea Baura and Zaccheria da Fivizzano Was Andrea Baura a Lutheran? Itinerant Hermits from the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries Apocalyptical Preaching in the Churches: Francesco da Montepulciano and His Companions Condemnation by the Fifth Lateran Council Andrea Baura's Vocation: A Clarification Friar Girolamo Piumazzo of Verona Other Augustinian Prophets An Umbrian Hermit and the Sack of Rome The Breakdown of Prophetic Preaching: The Story of Zaccheria da Fivizzano CHAPTER 5 Anti-Lutheran Prophecy: Luther as Monster and Pseudoprophet More on Monsters The Monster of Saxony: Luther's Interpretation Luther as Monster The Monster of Castelbaldo An Anti-Lutheran Prophecy God's Chastisement of Heretics A Case of Reformation Cryptopropaganda CHAPTER 6 Between Astrology and Prophecy: The Flood of 1524 Astrology and Prophecy: The Flood in piscibus A Case of Collective Panic Awaiting Divine Castigation The Deluge and Church Reform: Jean Albertin Carnival Rites in Venice and Rome The Carnival of Modena versus the Flood, Astrology, and Power Prophecy versus Astrology CHAPTER 7 Awaiting a New Octavian A Case of Possession and of Propaganda The Emperor of Peace in Popular Print Charles V the Second Charlemagne Prophecies of the Sack of Rome Leonello Beliardi and His Collection of Predictions Prognostications and Prophecies for the Congress of Bologna Three Suns for a New Octavian EPILOGUE 1530: The End of Popular Prophecy: The End of Liberty in Italy From Expectation of a New Age to the Age of Repression Divination, An Iniquitous and Female Art INDEX. ISBN 9780691008356Renaissance 1990, [PU: Princeton University Press]<

ISBN: 9780691008356

In the midst of the religious ferment, foreign invasions, and internal political strife that beset Italy before the full effects of the Counter-Reformation, the powerful and humble alike … Mehr…

In the midst of the religious ferment, foreign invasions, and internal political strife that beset Italy before the full effects of the Counter-Reformation, the powerful and humble alike turned to popular prophecy for guidance and solace. Ottavia Niccoli examines here the forms of these prophecies--including interpretations of natural disasters, abnormal births, floods, and planetary conjunctions--and gives examples of how they were transmitted from the lower classes to the elite through street singers, apocalyptic preachers, astrologers, and printers. By tracing the ongoing revision of the prophecies, Niccoli reveals them as an indication of how various levels of society viewed events of the time, as a form of propaganda for such causes as anti-Lutheranism, and as a reflection of the interaction between "high" and "low" culture.Based on popular leaflets, diaries, civic chronicles, and iconographic sources, this book explores the expression of a culture in which nature, religion, and politics formed a unified system with a uniform code of interpretation. It connects the decline of prophecy in Italy with the end of the Italian wars and the beginning of the Counter-Reformation, when popular preaching was banned and charismatic religion discouraged. Media > Book, [PU: Princeton University Press]<