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oapen-20.500.12657-891932024-04-03T02:24:38Z Chapter Error of the Heretic, Error of the Controversialist. Error and Deception in Sixteenth-Century Religious Polemics Caravale, Giorgio Ambrogio Catarino Politi Lutheranism justification by faith religious controversy Immaculate Conception In a confessional age in which Catholics and Protestants accused each other (and for a long time) of misinterpreting the Holy Scriptures and deceiving the faithful, some churchmen made religious controversy their life’s mission. One of the most famous among them was Ambrogio Catarino Politi, a Dominican polemist from Siena who lived in the first half of the sixteenth century. His entire existence revolved around the concept of error: errors of which he accused Luther and his Italian followers in some of the most effective pamphlets of the time; errors of which he himself was repeatedly accused by his Dominican adversaries before and during the Council of Trent; but also errors of which Politi accused himself in some revealing and at time merciless autobiographical reconstructions. Through the figure of the Sienese controversialist, this essay highlights all the semantic nuances assumed by the idea of error in sixteenth-century confessional controversy: from presumption to credulity, from delusion to deception. 2024-04-02T15:49:13Z 2024-04-02T15:49:13Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20240402_9791221502664_162 9791221502664 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89193 ita Knowledge and its Histories application/pdf n/a 9791221502664_03.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0266-4_3 Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0266-4.03 In a confessional age in which Catholics and Protestants accused each other (and for a long time) of misinterpreting the Holy Scriptures and deceiving the faithful, some churchmen made religious controversy their life’s mission. One of the most famous among them was Ambrogio Catarino Politi, a Dominican polemist from Siena who lived in the first half of the sixteenth century. His entire existence revolved around the concept of error: errors of which he accused Luther and his Italian followers in some of the most effective pamphlets of the time; errors of which he himself was repeatedly accused by his Dominican adversaries before and during the Council of Trent; but also errors of which Politi accused himself in some revealing and at time merciless autobiographical reconstructions. Through the figure of the Sienese controversialist, this essay highlights all the semantic nuances assumed by the idea of error in sixteenth-century confessional controversy: from presumption to credulity, from delusion to deception. 10.36253/979-12-215-0266-4.03 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9791221502664 2 10 Florence open access
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