Beyond Catholicism

1. Introduction
Fabrizio Donno, Simon Gilson

Part I. Bibles, Saints, and Heresies in Medieval and Early Modern Italy

2. Romancing the Gospel: Italian Vernacular Scripture in the Middle Ages
Brenda Deen Schildgen

3. Preaching, Heresy, and the Writing of Female Hagiography
Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Travis Allen Stevens

4. Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: A Lutheran Belief?
Ambra Moroncini

5. Exchanging Poetry with Theology: Ludovico Castelvetro between Humanism and Heresy
Stefano Jossa

6. Ferrante Pallavicino’s La Retorica Delle Puttane (1642): Blasphemy, Heresy, and Alleged Pornography
Letizia Panizza

7. “Providential Divining”: Heresies and Controversies in Giambattista Vico’s Scienza Nuova
Daragh O’Connell

Part II. Religious Expansion and Pluralism in Modern Italy

8. Metaliterary Fogazzaro: Bovarysme and Mysticism in Malombra (1881)
Olivia Santovetti

9. Catholicism and Neorealism: Zavattini’s Contribution to Universalia-Produced Prima Comunione (Blasetti, 1950)
Daniela Treveri Gennari

10. No New Earth: Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Italian Nuclear-War Literature
Florian Mussgnug

11. Defining the Apocalypse: An Old Word in New Contexts, According to Eco, Baricco, Fo, and Fallaci
Gillian Ania

12. Wu Ming’s Reformation: Mythopoesis, Utopia, and Global Politics
Fabrizio De Donno

13. Believing in Weakness: Gianni Vattimo’s Postmodernist Interpretation of Christianity
Michael Bacon

14. Silent Revolution in the Country of the Pope: From Catholicism as “The Religion of Italians” to the Pluralistic “Italy of Religion”
Stefano Allievi

Avainsanat: Religious Studies, History of Religion, Cultural History, History of Medieval Europe, European History, History of Italy, Social History