A review by greeniezona
Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World by Nancy Goldstone, Lawrence Goldstone

4.0

This book had been sitting on my shelves for how many years? Forever. But once I picked it up I was completely hooked and could hardly put it down. At first it is the story of Michael Servetus, a man who refuted Calvin's repressive theology and was burned at the stake for it -- it is also a history of the printing press, The Reformation, the Inquisition, medicine, rare book collecting, and heresy. There is so much in this book that it sometimes feels like it is maybe spinning off the rails, but it is all so interesting that you can hardly help but want to follow wherever it goes.

Myself, I did sometimes want to read a little more of Servetus's actual writings, but then, I guess that just gives me more books to add to my TBR pile, which is fine.