“an excellent study of the Inquisition’s attempts to curb subversive preachers”.<br />Christopher Black, University of Glasgow. In: <i> Renaissance and Reformation</i>, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Fall 2017), pp. 190–192.<br /><br />“This is a good book that advances our knowledge of the complex religious situation in the middle of the sixteenth century.”<br />Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto Emeritus. In: <i> The Catholic Historical Review</i>, Vol. 103, No. 3 (Summer 2017), pp. 584–585.<br /><br />“In this book, Giorgio Caravale has managed to “shed light on the darkness” of heretical preaching, to great effect [...]. This volume makes an important contribution to sixteenth-century Italian religious scholarship available to an Anglophone audience.”<br />Jane K. Wickersham, University of Oklahoma. In: <i>Journal of Jesuit Studies</i>, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2018), pp. 136–138.<br /><br />“This volume, a very clear English translation from the original Italian by Frank Gordon, makes available to an Anglophone audience a valuable contribution to the scholarship of Catholic and Counter-Reformation Italy. It ably demonstrates the impressive rhetorical skills of heterodox preachers in the 1540s, a period when reforming ideas of questionable orthodoxy were circulating widely, particularly in Venice. It also makes clear the Inquisition’s growing concern with the spread of these ideas, and its efforts to clamp down on preachers around the middle of the century, adding to our understanding of its increasing power.”<br />
Celeste McNamara, University of Warwick. In: <i>The English Historical Review</i>, March 2019.<br /><br />