ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a no less controversial aspect of male gender identities in the early modern age, namely religious convictions or affiliations. An aristocratic friend, Dame Sarah Cooper, would write of him in her diaries, that It was above all the brief experience at Trinity College in Cambridge that introduced Clifford to an innovative and destabilizing conceptualization of religious experience. Clifford had written his treatise in England under Charles II, when the old issue of tolerance towards Protestant dissenters once again began to be discussed and regulated. In 1670 the whole family moved to Bordeaux, where they were to remain for the next 15 years, living comfortably on the proceeds of the prosperous Anglo-Gascon trade in wine and brandy. The indomitable combativeness displayed by Radicati, and his death in solitude in The Hague in 1737, under the false name of Albert Barin, offer dramatic testimony to his profound adhesion to these principles.
