Giovanni Romeo (born 1949) is an Italian
historian
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Short biography
Romeo was born in
Procida
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. He is a full professor of early modern history at the
University of Naples
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, and a specialist in social and religious history.
His monograph ''Inquisitori, esorcisti e streghe nell'Italia della Controriforma'' (1990) was considered pioneering and marked an important step forward in inquisitorial and witchcraft studies.
The themes of history of Inquisition and sacramental confession have been developed in two small books of interpretative synthesis: ''Ricerche su confessione dei peccati e Inquisizione nell’Italia del Cinquecento'' (Naples, 1997) and ''L’Inquisizione nell’Italia moderna'' (Rome-Bari, 2002). Romeo focus on the ecclesiastical strategies of control of sexual behaviours in his large monographs ''Esorcisti, confessori e sessualità femminile nell’Italia della Controriforma'' (Florence 1999) and ''Amori proibiti. I concubini tra Chiesa e Inquisizione'' (Rome-Bari, 2008).
In his works dealing with the history of Inquisition and sacramental confession, he has strongly criticised the new leading historiographical trends in inquisitorial history represented especially by John Tedeschi (''The prosecution of heresy: collected studies on the Inquisition in early modern Italy'', New York 1991, Italian edition reviewed by Romeo in "Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa" in 1999) and Adriano Prosperi
''Tribunali della coscienza. Inquisitori, confessori, missionari'', Turin 1996, reviewed in "Quaderni storici", again in 1999, focusing on their empirical and documental lacunas.
Bibliography (selected)
* ''Inquisitori, esorcisti e streghe nell’Italia della Controriforma'', RCS, Milan
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4 990* ''Aspettando il boia. Condannati a morte, confortatori e inquisitori nella Napoli della Controriforma'', Sansoni, Florence, 1993
* ''Ricerche su confessione dei peccati e Inquisizione nell’Italia del Cinquecento'', La Città del Sole, Naples, 1997
* ''Esorcisti, confessori e sessualità femminile nell’Italia della Controriforma'', Le Lettere, Florence, 2009
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Events
By place
Europe
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Review of A. Prosperi, ''Tribunali della coscienza. Inquisitori, confessori, missionari''in ''Quaderni storici'', 1999, 102, p. 796-800
* Review of J. Tedeschi, ''Il giudice e l’eretico. Studi sull’Inquisizione romana'' in ''Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa'', 1999, 35, p. 437-41
"Giovanni Bellarmino tra Inquisizione e Indice"in ''Studi Storici'', 2001, 42/2, p. 529-35
* ''L’Inquisizione nell’Italia moderna'', Laterza, Rome-Bari, 2009
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Fiction
*002, fictional British 00 Agent
*''002 Operazione Luna'',
*1965 Italian film
*Zero Two, a ''Darling in the Franxx'' character
Airports
*0O2, Baker Airport
*O02, Nervino Airport
Astronomy
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Confesseurs et inquisiteurs dans l’Italie moderne: un bilan, in ''Revue de l’histoire des religions'', 2003, 220, p. 153-65
* ''Il fondo Sant’Ufficio dell’Archivio storico diocesano di Napoli. Inventario (1549–1647)'', monographical number of the historical review "Campania Sacra" (2003-34/1-2)
* ''Amori proibiti. I concubini tra Chiesa e Inquisizione'', Laterza, Rome-Bari, 2008
See also
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Roman Inquisition
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Witchcraft in Italy
Evidence of magic use and witch trials were prevalent in the Early Modern period, and Inquisitorial prosecution of witches and magic users in Italy during this period was widely documented. Primary sources unearthed from Vatican and city archives ...
External links
Academic webpages
Webpage on the site of the University of Naples
Multimedia links
Presentation of the book "Amori proibiti. I concubini tra Chiesa e Inquisizione" (2008)Seminar "Church, Inquisition and Witchcraft in Counter-Reformation Italy" taught at Bordeaux University (2011)
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20th-century Italian historians
Historians of Italy
21st-century Italian historians
1949 births
Writers from Naples
Academic staff of the University of Naples Federico II
Living people