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Fear of Hell: Images of Damnation and Salvation in Early Modern Europe

By Piero Camporesi, Lucinda Byatt (Translator)
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By Piero Camporesi, Lucinda Byatt (Translator)
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The Fear of Hell is a provocative study of two of the most powerful images in Christianity—hell and the eucharist. Drawing on the writings of Italian preachers and theologians of the Counter-Reformation, Piero Camporesi demonstrates the extraordinary power of the Baroque imagination to conjure up punishments, tortures, and the rewards of sin.

Camporesi argues that hell was a very real part of everyday life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Preachers portrayed hell in images ty...

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