L'inquisizione nel patriarcato e diocesi di Aquileia, 1557-1559.(Review)

The importance of Friuli for studying the operation of the Roman Inquisition has been recognized for some time. The relatively rare extent of surviving inquisitorial records for the area in archives at Udine and Venice has allowed investigation of the tribunal's operation in this part of northern Italy, in a way difficult to achieve for other parts of the peninsula. The very recent opening to some scholars of the central archive of the Holy Office in Rome has now allowed the findings from the Venetian archives to be combined with those deriving from the fragmentary records at Rome. For these reasons alone a major study of the workings of the Roman Inquisition is represented by …