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In Inquisition, Conversion, and Foreigners in Baroque Rome Irene Fosi provides a relevant account of the Roman Catholic strategies to convert heretical foreigners in the Eternal City and elsewhere, oscillating between repression and tolerance.

\"Richard Blackwell offers yet another important volume for our understanding of the context and thought around the trial of Galileo and more broadly the interaction of theology and science in the early modern era. Blackwell's scholarship is well known to Galileo scholars. . . . This latest volume makes Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus (1633) available in English for the first time, affording those lacking Latin better insights into the mind of the advisor to the Holy Office of the (Roman) Inquisition who gave the most detailed analysis of Galileo's Dialogue. Blackwell's five introductory chapters set Inchofer and other dramatis personae in Galileo's life in the context of the history of theology as well as of science. Blackwell especially considers the biblical hermeneutics that prompted figures like Inchofer to conclude that the Bible in fact taught the immobility of the Earth.\" --Journal for the History of Astronomy.

In the historiography of the turbulent relationship between Christians and Jews in the early modern period, the fate of the Talmud features prominently. Historians are inclined to argue that the burning of the Talmud on the Campo de’ Fiori on 9 September 1553 was welcomed by all representatives of the Roman Church without exception.¹ According to this view the action by order of the head of the Roman Inquisition, Cardinal Giampietro Caraffa, is understood as having been executed under direct authority of the pope.² Caraffa’s appeal to all local leaders to follow the Roman example therefore is alleged to have