Offers a fresh perspective on sixteenth-century Italian religious history and the religious crisis that swept across Europe during that period. Through an intellectual biography of Ambrogio Catarino Politi (1484-1553), Giorgio Caravale rethinks the problems resulting from the diffusion of Protestant doctrines in Renaissance Italy and the Catholic opposition to their advance.

Through an intellectual biography of Ambrogio Catarino Politi, Caravale offers a fresh perspective on Italian religious history and the Counter-Reformation during the Renaissance.