Description:
Kuntz tells the tale of the itinerant preacher Dionisio Gallo, using his story to depict the political and religious landscape of Counter-Reformation Europe and the relationship between politics and religious reform during the decade of the Council of Trent. We see how much prophecy and eschatology still attracts the intellects of France and Italy.
Brief description: Marion Leathers Kuntz is Fuller Callaway Professor of Classics at Georgia State University. She translated and edited Jean Bodin's Colloquium of the Seven About Secrets of the Sublime (1975) and is the author of Guillaume Postel, Prophet of the Restitution of All Things: His Life and Thought (1981).
Review Quotes:
"This engaging book by Marion Leathers Kuntz presents her research into Dionisio's fascinating life; her account of his time in Venice is particularly lively. But the great virtue of The Anointment of Dionisio is the way it uses the detail of its subject's life to analyze the broader perspective of the intellectual and political climate of Counter-Reformation Italy."
--Matthew Treherne Times Literary Supplement