Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Giovanni Caroli, the conduit of the sense of spiritual and political crisis in Florence
  • Introduction: Giovanni Caroli and his times
  • Liber dierum lucensium : Prooemium and book one
  • Liber dierum lucensium, book two
  • Liber dierum lucensium, book three
  • Humanist theology in practice
  • The historical context
  • Declamationum liber
  • The Turkish danger and its religious connotations
  • Classical, biblical, and patristic allusions : the disappearance of the doctors
  • The attitude to rhetoric
  • Ficino's praedicationes
  • Poliziano's sermons
  • Rinuccini's sermons
  • Nesi's sermons
  • Other sermons
  • Marsilio Ficino and the conditio religionis : quandiu duram et miserabilem hanc ferrei seculi sortem sustinebimus?
  • Some general introductory remarks
  • De christiana religione : the "manifesto" of the new humanist theology
  • Prisca religio and its divine inspiration : religion as the characteristic of man
  • Praeparatio evangelica
  • The incarnation as an intervention of the eternal in the temporal
  • The teachings of Christ
  • The apostles and the propagation of Christianity
  • The decline of the Christian world and Ficino's proposals for renewal
  • Giovanni Pico della mirandola and his theological method : between Opinio and fides
  • The theological crisis
  • Quia errare in opinione thomae, non est errare in fide-the dispute in Rome 1486 and the Apiologia
  • Pico's attitude to philosophy : between academic skepticism and religious certainty
  • The Savonarola affair-the government of God as republican practice
  • The Savonarola a'air : a case-study in the history and in the historiography of the Renaissance
  • Savonarola : an anti-humanist or a pro-humanist?
  • Savonarola and politics
  • The notion of reform : the transition from theology to politics
  • Spiritual and political vision : the preaching prophet and his slogan.