By Marion Leathers Kuntz
ISBN-10: 0271021349
ISBN-13: 9780271021348
In 1566 a flamboyant Frenchman who known as himself Dionisio Gallo mesmerized crowds of onlookers as he preached within the courtyard of the ducal palace in Venice. Believing he have been anointed through the Virgin, he brought a message of reform of church and society. quickly he used to be arrested, attempted prior to the Inquisition, and banished. In The Anointment of Dionisio, Marion Leathers Kuntz tells the weird story of this itinerant preacher, utilizing his tale to light up the checkered political and non secular panorama of Counter-Reformation Europe.
No ragged John the Baptist, Dionisio preached in a chic Latin, proven a command of the highbrow culture of prophetic writings, dressed so wonderfully that many proposal him an excellent prelate, and attracted the devotion of the king of France and a cluster of reform-minded princes and Venetian senators. So strong was once his demand reform that ecclesiastical professionals hesitated to arrest him and appeared confounded once they tried to interrogate him. Kuntz recounts Dionisio's profession with enormous aplomb, creating a guy who nonetheless is still mysterious in lots of methods come to lifestyles. in any case Kuntz provides us a richly layered depiction of the connection among politics and spiritual reform throughout the decade of the Council of Trent. We learn the way a lot prophecy and eschatology, in particular whilst brought through anyone as persuasive, literate, and commanding as Dionisio, may perhaps nonetheless allure the intelligentsia of France and Italy.
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One knows that Catherine was not averse to prophets and on occasion had consulted Nostradamus. Dionisio, for his part, never mentioned Nostradamus in his writings, even though he could have used a prediction of the famous prophet to his own advantage. ” As we know, Dionisio called his plan for the reformation of the Church his Legatio. As the civil wars increased in violence, Dionisio’s rhetoric increased in intensity. ” While the king and his mother were trying to calm the situation in France, Dionisio’s inflammatory words were surely having the opposite effect.
Margaret Valois was a disciple of Michel de L’Hôpital, whom she had made president of her council in , before he became chancellor of France. He owed much of his power to Catherine de’ Medici, who at this time was opposed to the unyielding policies of the dukes of Guise. She supported instead the tolerant and conciliatory political policy of L’Hôpital, who had refused, for example, to sign the order that would condemn to death the prince of Condé because of his complicity in the conspiracy of Amboise.
Lorraine’s tolerant stance encouraged the Huguenots, and violence again broke out. Because of the belief that the court was on their side, Calvinist pastors preached without restraint. Catherine even took the king and her other children to hear a sermon preached by a Calvinist pastor. This certainly scandalized the Catholics and was perhaps one of the reasons that Dionisio had abandoned hopes that the Crown of France could settle its religious problems and usher in a true reform of the Church. As the Wars of Religion increased in violence, however, and as the efforts of the king and his mother proved ineffective in spite of the Edict of Pacification, Dionisio became more frustrated and openly critical of the king and especially of Catherine de’ Medici.
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