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The early decades of the Cinquecento witnessed a proliferation of religious publications in the Italian vernacular. In the second half of the century the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and the founding of the Roman Congregations of the Holy Office (1542) and of the Index (1572) would halt the consistent and substantially uncontrolled development of devotional and spiritual literature. But in the generation before this a huge number of pamphlets and books, “from the more traditional to the more innovative”, flooded the markets of the Italian peninsula, with considerable impact on the religious thought and practice of both clergy and laypeople.1 As has been pointed out, spiritual books acted in those years, alongside with popular preaching, as effective vehicles for religious propaganda and for the dissemination of new ideas.2 They promoted not only the doctrines introduced by the German and Swiss Reformation, but also the anti-dogmatic spirituality and the reform proposals elaborated by Italian evangelical groups clustered around such leading figures as the Venetian cardinal Gaspare Contarini and the Spanish alumbrado Juan de Valdés, or by the representatives of the most dynamic religious gatherings of the age, from

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The Editorial History of a Rare and Forbidden Franciscan Book of the Italian Renaissance: The Dialogo della Unione Spirituale di Dio con l’anima by Bartolomeo Cordoni