Seven Lies About Catholic History by Moczar Diane

Author:Moczar, Diane [Moczar, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780895559173
Publisher: TAN Books
Published: 2010-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Roman Inquisition in Italy

During the sixteenth century a tribunal was set up in Rome to deal with the threat of Protestantism in the states of Italy, Malta, and a few other territories. This tribunal also dealt with accusations of witchcraft and with other offenses against orthodox teaching or practice. One of its highest profile cases was that of Galileo, which is discussed in Chapter Five of this book.

The Inquisition in Italy seems to have found very few heretics, at least few who received the death sentence. In the Venetian Republic, for example, from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, there were four executions out of a thousand cases, with similar single-digit numbers elsewhere in the peninsula. In the course of the Italian Inquisition’s nearly two-hundred-year existence, some tens of thousands of cases were investigated, with a small number (estimated by one Italian historian at two percent) ending in a sentence of death. By the mid-nineteenth century its career was largely over, though it continued to be attacked by Italian freethinkers and revolutionaries as a symbol of repression. In the rest of the Italian states, local governments had phased out the Inquisition by the late eighteenth century.

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