The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo

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231 n o t e s Introduction 1. Edward Peters, Inquisition (New York: Free Press, 1988), chaps. 5–10. 2. Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998); John Edwards, The Spanish Inquisition (Stroud: Tempus, 1999); Lu Ann Homza, ed., The Spanish Inquisition, 1478–1614: An Anthology of Sources (Indianapolis : Hackett, 2006); Francisco Bethencourt, The Inquisition: A Global History, 1478– 1834, trans. Jean Birrell, rev. English ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009); see Introduction and 364–86 in Bethencourt for the polemics. 3. Thomas F. Mayer, “The Status of the Inquisition’s Precept to Galileo (1616) in Historical Perspective,” Nuncius 24 (2009): 61–95. 4. John Tedeschi, The Prosecution of Heresy: Collected Studies on the Inquisition in Early Modern Italy (Binghamton, N.Y.: MRTS, 1991). 5. Francesco Beretta, “Galilée devant le Tribunal de l’inquisition” (Th.D. thesis, Universit è de Fribourg, 1997). 6. See also Adriano Prosperi’s authoritative summary in DSI, 2: 815–27. 7. As was still the case in the monumental editions of Inquisition trials by Massimo Firpo and Dario Marcatto, beginning with Il processo inquisitoriale del Cardinal Giovanni Morone, 6 vols. (Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per l’Età Moderna e Contemporanea, 1981–95). 8. E.g., Gigliola Fragnito, La Bibbia al rogo: La censura ecclesiastica e i volgarizzamenti della Scrittura (1471–1605) (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1997). 9. For a start primarily on private law, see Hans Coing, ed., Handbuch der Quellen und Literatur der neueren europäischen Privatrechtsgeschichte: Neuere Zeit, 1500–1800; Das Zeitalter des Gemeinen Recht, 3 vols. (Munich: Beck, 1976–1988); Guido Kisch, Erasmus und die Jurisprudenz seiner Zeit (Basel: Helbing and Lichtenhahn, 1960) and Gestalten und Probleme aus Humanismus und Jurisprudenz: Neue Studien und Texte (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1969); Mario Ascheri, Un maestro del “mos italicus”: Gianfrancesco Sannazari della Ripa (1480c.– 1535) (Milan: Giuffré, 1970); and Ascheri, Ingrid Baumgärtner, and Julius Kirshner, eds., Legal Consulting in the Civil Law Tradition (Berkeley, Calif.: Robbins Collection, 1999). It is symptomatic that much of Ascheri’s other work concerns the Middle Ages. Interest in the history of canon law falls off even more steeply after the end of the fifteenth century. notes to pages 2–4 232 10. Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983); Berman, Law and Revolution II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003). 11. For a short but lucid sketch, see Julius Kirshner, “A Critical Appreciation of Lauro Martines’s Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence,” in The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Essays in Honour of Lauro Martines, ed. Lawrin Armstrong and Julius Kirshner (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 7–39. 12. Bethencourt, The Inquisition, 69, noticed “the central role of Italian juridical output ” but does not follow up his observation. 13. Perhaps the closest is Paolo Prodi, much of whose work operates at a rather high level of generalization. See especially Il sovrano pontefice: Un corpo e due anime; la monarchia papale nella prima età moderna (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1982). 14. Ugo Baldini and Leen Spruit, eds., Catholic Church and Modern Science: Documents from the Archives of the Roman Congregations of the Holy Office and the Index, 4 vols., Fontes Archivi Sancti Officii Romani (Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2009), “Introduction ,” 50, on the commissary’s two (instead of the correct number of one) assistants, drawing on William Humphrey, Urbs et Orbis or the Pope as Bishop and as Pontiff (London: Thomas Baker, 1899), 412. 15. Thomas F. Mayer, Reginald Pole, Prince and Prophet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). 16. Tedeschi, Prosecution of Heresy, 8; Paul F. Grendler, The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press (1540–1605) (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977), 56. 17. Andrea Del Col, L’inquisizione in Italia (Milan: Mondadori, 2006); Adriano Prosperi , Tribunali della coscienza: Inquisitori, confessori, missionari (Turin: G. Einaudi, 1996) and L’inquisizione romana, letture e ricerche (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2003); Guido Dall’Olio, Eretici e inquisitori nella Bologna del Cinquecento (Bologna: Istituto per la Storia di Bologna, 1999); Christopher F. Black, The Italian Inquisition (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009). Beretta has published an enormous number of articles, among them “Urbain VIII Barberini protagoniste de la condamnation de Galilée,” in Largo campo di filosofare: Eurosymposium Galileo 2001, ed. José Montesinos and Carlos Solís Santos (La Orotava, Spain: Fundaci...