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Pietro Giannone. Autobiography. The Tragedy of a Historian and the Inquisition: Translated with commentary by Thérèse Ridley

This volume is the first English translation of 'Vita di Pietro Giannone scritta da lui medesimo', a powerful autobiographical account penned under the direst conditions—by a man persecuted, imprisoned, and ultimately destroyed by the Inquisition. Written on scraps of paper during his long incarceration, Giannone’s 'Vita' is a masterpiece of Enlightenment literature, detailing the meteoric rise of a most eminent...

Keywords:: Pietro Giannone, DNBH1, LIT004200, Inquisition, Italian historian, NHD, HIS020000, autobiography, BIO006000, REL084000, religious persecution, DSBD, QDTS, POL004000, PHI016000, church and state, QRAM2

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Textbook
Date Added to MERLOT:: April 9, 2026
Date Modified in MERLOT:: April 13, 2026
Author:: Thérèse Ridley
Submitter:: Open Book Publishers
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

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