Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Sarpi's life: a brief survey

Chapter 1: The Pensieri filosofici

The Pensieri filosofici and scholastic philosophy

The Pensieri filosofici and Pomponazzi's de Immortalitate Animae

The Pensieri sulla religione and Charron's De la sagesse

The Pensieri sulla religione and the defects of Christianity

The Pensieri medico-morali: philosophy and propaganda

Sarpi unmasked

Chapter 2: Sarpi and the Venetian Interdict

Introduction

The defence of Venice

The Church in Venetian society

Sarpi and Pierre de Belloy

Campanella's Antiveneti

Sarpi: isolated intellectual or representative Venetian?

Tacitism

Chapter 3: Sarpi's place in Europe

Sarpi and the early Church

Sarpi and the Protestants

Sarpi and the History of the Council of Trent

Chapter 4: The man and his masks

Images of the man

History of the Inquisition

The letter to Badoer

Sarpi's objectives

Appendix: The testimony of Giovanni Francesco Graziani (1610)

Notes on illustrations

Notes

Bibliography

Index