A nearly thousand-page single-volume history of the Inquisition in Italy from the twelfth to the twenty-first century, covering the medieval inquisitions, the Roman Inquisition and Spain's own Sicilian tribunal. Del Col draws on the surviving tribunal archives to estimate that of some 51,000 to 75,000 cases judged by the Roman Inquisition across Italy from 1542 onward, around 1,250 ended in a death sentence, a figure this atlas records against the far larger and untraceable numbers sometimes repeated in popular polemic.
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Del Col taught the History of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation at the University of Trieste and co-directs its Center for Research on the Inquisition; this Mondadori volume was reviewed in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and the English Historical Review as the standard modern synthesis of the Italian Inquisition's full run, and its case and execution counts are drawn from the surviving tribunal archives rather than from polemical estimate. Citation
AuthorAndrea Del Col
PublisherMilan: Mondadori
Publication Year2006
Source Typeacademic monograph
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