Fruits of Migration: Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European Culture 1550-1620

417 Pages·2018·7.795 MB·English

by  Cornel Zwierlein, Vincenzo Lavenia

Fruits of Migration
Intersections
Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture
General Editor
Karl A.E. Enenkel (Chair of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
e-mail: kenen_01@uni_muenster.de)
Editorial Board
W. van Anrooij (University of Leiden)
W. de Boer (Miami University)
Chr. Göttler (University of Bern)
J.L. de Jong (University of Groningen)
W.S. Melion (Emory University)
R. Seidel (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
P.J. Smith (University of Leiden)
J. Thompson (Queen’s University Belfast)
A. Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin)
C. Zittel (University of Stuttgart)
C. Zwierlein (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)
VOLUME 57 – 2018
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Fruits of Migration
Heterodox Italian Migrants and
Central European Culture 1550–1620
Edited by
Cornel Zwierlein
Vincenzo Lavenia
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover illustration: Alciati Andrea, Omnia [...] Emblemata: Cum commentariis, ed. Claude Mignault (Antwerp,
Christoph Plantin: 1581) [copy: BSB Munich, 037/Kst 32], p. 455, detail. The ornamental frame used as back-
ground comes from Morata Olimpia Fulvia, Opera omnia cum eruditorum testimonijs (Basel, Pietro Perna:
1580) [copy: BSB Munich, Opp. 102], fol. *8v. The engraving shows the image of the sorrowful Italy (r.) with
the cartouche ʽSpoliata ingemisco (Plundered I sigh)ʼ, and Germany (l.) in triumph, with the inscription
ʽOrnata insurgo (Decorated I rise)ʼ. It illustrates therefore, in nuce, the theme of our volume and shows that
there were already germs of a theory about the effects of migration in early modern times close to a translatio
studiorum: through the afflux of migrating heterodox Italians, Germany´s intellectual power is increasing.
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on the Editors viii
Notes on the Contributors ix
List of Illustrations xiii
Introduction: Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European
Culture 1550–1620 1
Cornel Zwierlein and Vincenzo Lavenia
1 An Interrupted Dialogue? Italy and the Protestant Book Market in the
Early Seventeenth Century 27
Marco Cavarzere
2 Books on the Run: The Case of Francesco Patrizi 45
Margherita Palumbo
3 Exile Experiences ‘Religionis causaʼ and the Transmission of Medical
Knowledge between Italy and German-Speaking Territories in the
Second Half of the Sixteenth Century 72
Alessandra Quaranta
4 Immanuel Tremellius: From Italian Hebraist to International
Migrant 102
Kenneth Austin
5 Bernardino Ochino and the German Reformation: The Augsburg
Sermons and Flugschriften of an Italian Heretic (1543–1560) 126
Michele Camaioni
6 Olympia Fulvia Morata: ‘Glory of Womankind both for Piety and for
Wisdomʼ 147
Lucia Felici
7 ‘A House for All Sorts of People’: Jacopo Stradaʼs Contacts with Italian
Heterodox Exiles 178
Dirk  Jacob  Jansen
vi Contents
8 Journeys of Books, Voices of Tolerance: An Outline of Marco Antonio
Flaminioʼs European Reception 232
Giovanni Ferroni
9 Some Notes about the Diffusion of Francesco Guicciardini’s Ricordi in
Germany between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 262
Maria Elena Severini
10 Between Italy and Germany: City-States in Early Modern Legal
Literature  294
Lucia Bianchin
11 French-Dutch Connections: The Transalpine Reception of
Machiavelli 320
Cornel Zwierlein
12 On the Origins of Enlightenment: The Fruits of Migration in the
Italian Liberal Historiographical Tradition 362
Neil Tarrant
Index Rerum 383
Index Locorum 386
Index Nominum 390
Acknowledgements
Both the editors of this volume, who have been swapping views on the Italian
cinquecento since their days as doctoral students participating in conferences
at the Italo-German Institute at Trento, were agreed that a summary of cur-
rent research on a still compelling topic was desirable and necessary. Much has
been written since Cantimori on heterodox Italians, less on Italian-transalpine
connections; practical knowledge concerning widely dispersed sources and lit-
erature often published in inaccessible places can be likewise hard to review.
The aim of this volume has been, then, to bring together a group of young but
experienced scholars of the subject to produce an interim report on the current
state of research, in the full knowledge that investigations are continuing apace
on all the themes touched upon here and that, alas, we have not been able to
cover all the migrant individuals and groups and the ongoing discourses con-
cerning them. A generous invitation from Paola Molino from the University of
Padua provided a welcome opportunity for fruitful discussion of pre-circulated
draft papers by the majority of the contributing authors as well as by three
external commentators, Adelisa Malena, Chiara Petrolini and Gábor Almási
(September 28, 2017). Several colleagues have also helped behind the scenes
as readers and reviewers of the papers, adding different views and expertise to
the editors’ own readings and comments. As Intersections is not a series that
relies on a limited pool of recurring reviewers, their anonymous status can be
lifted here to thank them together with the much appreciated helping hands in
Padua: Artemio E. Baldini, Paolo Carta, Brendan Dooley, Chiara Franceschini,
Martin Mulsow. At a late stage of preparation, after the review process had
been completed, Lucia Felici’s paper could be added, enabled foremost by
Vincenzo Lavenia’s unmatched gentleness. Our thanks also go to the co-
members of the Board of Intersections who immediately embraced the proj-
ect and to its general editor Karl A.E. Enenkel, as well as to Ivo Romein, Arjan
van Dijk, Gera van Bedaf, and Renee Otto from Brill, for their as always high-
ly professional and efficient collaboration, and also to the typesetting team
of Asiatype Inc. for a very quick and precise type-setting. The texts by non-
English-speakers have been edited by Stephen Walsh, the introduction par-
tially edited and partially translated by John Phillimore.
Notes on the Editors
Vincenzo Lavenia
is associate professor at the Department of History, Cultures and Civilizations,
University of Bologna, Italy, where he teachs Early Modern History. He was student
and perfezionando at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, where he earned his
PhD in 2001. He was fellow in Naples (Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici), Coimbra
(Instituto de História e Teoria das Ideias), Trent (Isig), and Turin (Fondazione L.
Firpo). He was also enseignant chercheur invité at the École Pratique des Hautes
Études in Paris. His publications include Lʼinfamia e il perdono. Tributi, pene e con-
fessione nella teologia morale della prima età moderna (Bologna, mulino: 2004);
(dir., with A. Prosperi and J. Tedeschi), Dizionario storico dellʼInquisizione, 4 vols.
(Pisa, Edizione della Scuola Normale: 2010); (ed.), J.G. de Sepúlveda, Democrate.
Dialogo sull’accordo tra la professione delle armi e la fede cristiana (Macerata-
Rome, Quodlibet: 2015); (ed.), Storia del cristianesimo, vol. 3, L’età moderna (Rome,
Carocci: 2015); (ed.), ‘Missiones castrensesʼ: Jesuits and Soldiers between Pastoral
Care and Violence, Journal of Jesuit Studies, 4 (2017) (special issue); Dio in uniforme.
Cappellani, catechesi cattolica e soldati in età moderna (Bologna, mulino: 2018).
Cornel Zwierlein
is currently Heisenberg-Stipendiat of the German Science Foundation at the
University of Bamberg. He is teaching early modern and environmental history
at the university of Bochum since 2008 as Prof. (employed until 2017), early mod-
ern history since 2001 at Munich where he earned his PhD in 2003 from the LMU
and the CESR Tours; Habilitation 2011. He earned fellowships for France, Italy,
Germany, and the Max-Weber-Price of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in
2010. He has been Fellow (2013–2015) and is Associate (2016, 2018) of the Harvard
History Department and at CRASSH, Wolfson College (Cambridge University,
2014), Fellow (2017/18) and Associate (ongoing) at the Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt.
He collaborates as nominator with the Humboldt Foundationʼs Anneliese-Maier-
Award winner Professor Alan Mikhail (Yale). Monographs: Discorso and Lex Dei.
Die Entstehung neuer Denkrahmen im 16. Jahrhundert und die Wahrnehmung
der französischen Religionskriege in Italien und Deutschland (Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht: 2006), Der gezähmte Prometheus. Feuer und Sicherheit zwischen Früher
Neuzeit und Moderne (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: 2011). The Political Thought of
the French League and Rome, 1585–1589. De justa populi gallici ab Henrico tertio
defectione and De justa Henrici tertii abdicatione (Jean Boucher, 1589) (Droz: 2016)
and Imperial Unknowns. The French and the British in the Mediterranean, 1650–
1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2016); last collective volume: The Dark Side of
Knowledge. Histories of Ignorance, 1400–1800 (Brill 2016).
Notes on the Contributors
Kenneth Austin
is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Bristol, UK. His
research interests include the Renaissance, the Reformation and the cultural
and intellectual links between them; Judaeo-Christian relations in the early
modern period; and the history of friendship and of correspondence and
friendship networks. His first book was From Judaism to Calvinism: The Life and
Writings of Immanuel Tremellius (c.1510–1580) (Ashgate, 2007). He is currently
writing a book on the Reformation and the Jews.
Lucia Bianchin
is associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento, Italy,
where she teaches History of Medieval and Modern Law and History of
Modern Legal Thought. She was post-doctoral research fellow at the Italo-
German Institute in Trento and at the Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische
Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt am Main. She is member of the executive board
of the review Il Pensiero Politico and of the board of the Johannes-Althusius-
Gesellschaft. Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Naturrechtslehren und der
Verfassungsgeschichte des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. She is author of many publi-
cations on the legal and political thought in the early modern period, especial-
ly with reference to the relationship of law to theology and the theory of public
law in the Protestant area. Among those are Dove non arriva la legge. Dottrine
della censura nella prima età moderna (mulino 2005); with M. Ferronato, ‘Silete
theologi in munere alienoʼ. Alberico Gentili e la Seconda Scolastica (Cedam 2011),
Diritto, teologia e politica nella prima età moderna. Johannes Althusius (1563–
1638) (Il Formichiere, 2017).
Michele Camaioni
is Post-doc researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 923
“Threatened Order – Societies under Stress” of the Eberhard Karls Universität
Tübingen, Germany. He has received his PhD in 2011 at the University of Rome
(Roma Tre). He is currently working at an interdisciplinary project on the topic
‘Threat discourse in sermons and plays of the late middle ages and the early
modern eraʼ. His studies focus on Italian religious culture in the Renaissance
period, with a particular interest for the relationship between preaching, print-
ing and religious dissent. He is the author of a forthcoming book on the Sienese
Capuchin preacher and “heretic” Bernardino Ochino (1487–1564).