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Philosophy, Renaissance --- Philosophy, Italian --- Philosophie de la Renaissance --- Philosophie italienne --- Bruno, Giordano, --- Renaissance --- Historiography --- Campanella, Tommaso, --- Sarpi, Paolo, --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- History --- Paolo Servita --- Soave, Petrus --- Polano, Pietro Soave --- Campanella, Giovanni Domenico, --- Campanella, T. --- Campanella, Thomas, --- Campanella, Tomasso, --- Campanella, Tomasz, --- Kampanella, Tommazo, --- Bruno, Giordano --- Sarpi, Paolo --- Campanella, Tommaso --- Giordano, Bruno --- Brono, G'yordano, --- Brouno, Tziorntano, --- Bruno, Dzhordano, --- Bruno, Filippo, --- Bruno, G'yordano, --- Brunus Nolanus, Jordanus, --- Bulunuo, --- Nolanus, Jordanus Brunus, --- Bruno, --- Pu-lu-no, --- Pu-lu-no, Chʻiao-erh-tan-no, --- ברונו, ג׳ורדאנו, --- ברונו, ג׳ורדנו --- ברונו, ג׳יורדנו --- Renaissance - Italy - Historiography --- Bruno, Giordano, - 1548-1600 --- Campanella, Tommaso, - 1568-1639 --- Sarpi, Paolo, - 1552-1623 --- Paulus Venetus --- Paolo Veneto

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Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623) is remembered as the defender of Venice against the Papal Interdict of 1606 and as the first, and greatest, historian of the Counter-Reformation. The sources of his undoubted hostility to clerical authority have always been a matter of controversy; many contemporaries claimed that Sarpi was an 'atheist', while to others his anticlericalism suggested that he was in secret a Protestant. In the present book David Wootton argues that Sarpi's public opinions must be assessed in the light of the views expressed in his private papers. Starting from the Pensiere, in which Sarpi formulated a series of philosophical and historical arguments against Christianity, Mr Wootton seeks to reinterpret Sarpi's life work as being the expression, not of a love of intellectual liberty, nor of a commitment to Protestantism, but of a carefully thought out hostility to doctrinal religion. This interpretation of Sarpi serves to cast new light on the man and his work. But it also throws new light on the intellectual history of his age. Historians such as Lucien Febvre and R. H. Popkin have sought to deny the existence of systematic unbelief in Sarpi's day. Others, such as Christopher Hill and Carlo Ginzburg, have found evidence of a radical, popular tradition of unbelief. This book seeks, through its account of Sarpi's beliefs, to penetrate the hypocrisy which contemporaries agreed characterised the age, and to lay the foundations for a new understanding of the intellectual origins of unbelief.

Renaissance --- Statesmen --- Biography. --- Sarpi, Paolo, --- Servites --- Venice (Italy) --- Intellectual life. --- Biography --- Intellectual life --- Statesmen - Italy - Venice - Biography --- Sarpi, Paolo, - 1552-1623 --- Venice (Italy) - Intellectual life --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Public officers --- Paolo Servita --- Soave, Petrus --- Polano, Pietro Soave --- O.S.M. --- Orden de los Siervos de María (Servitas) --- Order of Servants of Mary --- Ordine dei servi di Maria --- Ordo Servorum Beatae Mariae Virginis --- Ordo Servorum Mariae --- Ordre des Servites de Marie --- OSM --- Servi di Maria --- Servi di Santa Maria --- Servites de Marie --- Servants of Mary --- Bneci (Italy) --- Mleci (Italy) --- Mleti (Italy) --- Venecia (Italy) --- Venezia (Italy) --- Venedig (Italy) --- Venetik (Italy) --- Venet︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Velence (Italy) --- Benetia (Italy) --- Venetia (Italy) --- Wenecja (Italy) --- Venise (Italy) --- Fenice (Italy) --- Benetke (Italy) --- Vinegia (Italy) --- Burano (Italy) --- Murano (Italy) --- Venice (Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom) --- Paulus Venetus --- Paolo Veneto

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This book is an intellectual biography of the Venetian historian and theologian Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623). It analyses Sarpi's natural philosophy, religious ideas and political thought. Kainulainen argues that Sarpi was influenced by Neostoicism, Neoepicureanism and the sixteenth-century scientific revolution; that Sarpi was a fideist and Christian mortalist who, while critical of the contemporary Church of Rome, admired the purity of the early church. Focusing on Sarpi’s separation between church and state, his use of absolutism, divine right of kings and reason of state, the book offers a fresh perspective on medieval and reformation traditions. It will be of interest to those interested in early-modern intellectual history and the interplay between science, religion and politics in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political discourse.

Historians --- Statesmen --- Public officers --- Historiographers --- Scholars --- Sarpi, Paolo, --- Paolo Servita --- Soave, Petrus --- Polano, Pietro Soave --- Servites --- Servants of Mary --- O.S.M. --- Orden de los Siervos de María (Servitas) --- Order of Servants of Mary --- Ordine dei servi di Maria --- Ordo Servorum Beatae Mariae Virginis --- Ordo Servorum Mariae --- Ordre des Servites de Marie --- OSM --- Servi di Maria --- Servi di Santa Maria --- Servites de Marie --- Venice (Italy) --- Bneci (Italy) --- Mleci (Italy) --- Mleti (Italy) --- Venecia (Italy) --- Venezia (Italy) --- Venedig (Italy) --- Venetik (Italy) --- Venetsii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Velence (Italy) --- Benetia (Italy) --- Venetia (Italy) --- Wenecja (Italy) --- Venise (Italy) --- Fenice (Italy) --- Benetke (Italy) --- Vinegia (Italy) --- Burano (Italy) --- Murano (Italy) --- Venice (Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom) --- Intellectual life. --- Venet︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Historians - Italy - Venice - Biography. --- Statesmen - Italy - Venice - Biography. --- Renaissance - Italy - Venice. --- Sarpi, Paolo, - 1552-1623 --- Venice (Italy) - Intellectual life. --- Venice (Italy) - Biography. --- Venice (Italy) - History - 1508-1797. --- Paulus Venetus --- Paolo Veneto