Italy
Charles Borromeo
The nephew of Pius IV who drove Trent to its finish and made Milan the model of a Counter-Reformation diocese.
Gasparo Contarini
The Venetian cardinal who came nearest to agreement with the Protestants at Regensburg in 1541, and failed.
Giovanni Morone
The diplomat-cardinal who was imprisoned by Paul IV on suspicion of heresy and then steered the Council of Trent to its close.
Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), the Florentine preacher who called the Renaissance city to repentance.
Inquisitions
The Inquisitions of the Roman Catholic Church: their background, development, methods, and justification, their part in the persecution of the Reformation, and a list of the principal tribunals from 1184 to the present.
Inquisitions
The Inquisitions of the Roman Catholic Church: their background, development, methods, and justification, their part in the persecution of the Reformation, and a list of the principal tribunals from 1184 to the present.
Locarno Disputation (1549)
Locarno Disputation (1549): A congregation under pressure. A concise account of the debate and its place in the Protestant Reformation.
Peter Martyr Vermigli
A short biography of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562), the Florentine prior who fled the Inquisition and taught Reformed theology at Strasbourg, Oxford, and Zurich.
