Post on 30-Dec-2015
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“If you do this, your city will be glorious, because in this way it will be reformed with regard to both the spiritual and the temporal. And Florence will become richer and more powerful than ever and will extend its power to many places”
• followers: piagnoni, frateschi
• fanciulli = male youth groups
• opponents: arrabbiati (also compagnacci)
Politics and Religion
• Fifth Lateran Council
1512-17
• spirituali
Sixteenth-Century Reform
Cardinal Gaspare Contarini (1483-1542)
1540s: another turning point
•intransigenti
•Jesuit Order
•Inquisition
•apostasy
•Council of Trent
Fra Bernardino Ochino (1487-
64)