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Introduzione al volume
No full textQuesto libro raccoglie le testimonianze di alcuni tra i più cari studenti e assistenti universitari di Aldo Moro, divenuti poi tutti affermati professionisti. Da Giorgio Balzoni a Valter Mainetti, da Fortunato Lazzaro a Francesco Saverio Fortuna, da Franco Tritto a Giovanni Castelvecchio. Sia pure a distanza di molti decenni dalla sua tragica morte, essi hanno sentito il piacere e insieme il bisogno di mettere nero su bianco i ricordi degli anni trascorsi nelle aule e nei corridoi della facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell'Università romana La Sapienza al fianco di colui che tutti loro chiamavano il "Professore". Ne emerge un quadro parzialmente inedito dell'uomo e dell'insegnante, uno sguardo originale sulla passione e l'energia dedicate da uno tra i politici più autorevoli della Prima Repubblica al suo ruolo di docente e di educatore. Un libro di straordinaria attualità che dice molto su come la politica e l'università possano tornare a essere strumenti di conoscenza e governo della società contemporanea. I contributi sono preceduti da una prefazione dello storico Giorgio Caravale, firma de ''Il Foglio quotidiano''
Beyond the Inquisition. Ambrogio Catarino Politi and the Origins of the Counter-Reformation
No full textIn Beyond the Inquisition, originally published in an Italian edition in 2007, Giorgio Caravale offers a fresh perspective on sixteenth-century Italian religious history and the religious crisis that swept across Europe during that period. Through an intellectual biography of Ambrogio Catarino Politi (1484–1553), Caravale rethinks the problems resulting from the diffusion of Protestant doctrines in Renaissance Italy and the Catholic opposition to their advance. At the same time, Caravale calls for a new conception of the Counter-Reformation, demonstrating that during the first half of the sixteenth century there were many alternatives to the inquisitorial model that ultimately prevailed.
Lancellotto Politi, the jurist from Siena who entered the Dominican order in 1517 under the name of Ambrogio Catarino, started his career as an anti-Lutheran controversialist, shared friendships with the Italian Spirituals, and was frequently in conflict with his own order. The main stages of his career are all illustrated with a rich array of previously published and unpublished documentation. Caravale’s thorough analysis of Politi’s works, actions, and relationships significantly alters the traditional image of an intransigent heretic hunter and an author of fierce anti-Lutheran tirades. In the same way, the reconstruction of his role as a papal theologian and as a bishop in the first phase of the Council of Trent and the reinterpretation of his battle against the Spanish theologian Domingo de Soto and scholasticism reestablish the image of a Counter-Reformation that was different from the one that triumphed in Trent, the image of an alternative that was viable but never came close to being implemented.
“Giorgio Caravale’s Beyond the Inquisition: Ambrogio Catarino Politi and the Origins of the Counter-Reformation gives an extraordinarily good idea of Ambrogio Catarino as a man and as a thinker. Catarino has often been regarded as the voice of orthodoxy, but Caravale presents a man who is infinitely more complex, full of contradictions and apparent inconsistencies that illustrate the various tensions created by the Reformation.” — Alastair Hamilton, Arcadian Visiting Research Professor, The Warburg Institut
The Italian Reformation Outside Italy. Francesco Pucci's Heresy in Sixteenth Century Europe
No full textWhat was the legacy of the so-called Italian Reformation? What contribution did Italian humanism make to European developments in irenicism and religious tolerance? In The Italian Reformation outside Italy, Giorgio Caravale uses previously unpublished documents to reconstruct the life and intellectual career of Francesco Pucci (1543-1597). Educated in Renaissance Florence, Pucci found his vocation as a prophet in France during the Wars of Religion and embarked on a long period of peregrination, stopping off in Paris, London, Basle, Antwerp, Krakow and Prague before being imprisoned, tried and sentenced to death by the Roman Inquisition three years before Giordano Bruno. His doctrines were judged to be heretical by all religious confessions and his political proposal was a spectacular failure. Caravale presents a rich chapter of sixteenth-century European history whose main features are religious conflict, irenic tension, universalist aspirations and prophetic expectations
Il profeta disarmato. L'eresia di Francesco Pucci nell'Europa del Cinquecento
No full textQuale fu l’eredità della cosiddetta Riforma italiana? Quale il contributo dell’umanesimo italiano agli sviluppi europei dell’irenismo e della tolleranza religiosa? Il libro risponde a questi e altri interrogativi ricostruendo con l’aiuto di documentazione inedita la vicenda biografica e intellettuale di Francesco Pucci (1543-1597). Educato nella Firenze rinascimentale, Pucci scoprì nella Francia delle guerre di religione la sua vocazione di profeta, iniziando una lunga peregrinazione tra Parigi, Londra, Basilea, Anversa, Cracovia e Praga, per essere infine imprigionato e condannato a morte dall’Inquisizione romana, tre anni prima di Giordano Bruno. Le sue dottrine furono giudicate eretiche da ogni confessione religiosa e la sua proposta politica andò incontro a un clamoroso fallimento. Caravale guida il lettore attraverso un intrigante itinerario che colloca la penisola italiana al centro della storia europea del Cinquecento, in un’Europa dilaniata dai conflitti religiosi ma anche solcata da tensioni ireniche, aspirazioni universalistiche e attese profetich
Censorship and Heresy in Revolutionary England and Counter-Reformation Rome. Story of a Dangerous Book
No full textThis book explores the secrets of the extraordinary editorial success of Jacobus Acontius' Satan's Stratagems, an important book that intrigued readers and outraged religious authorities across Europe. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work, first published in Basel in 1565, was a resounding success. For the next century it was republished dozens of times in different historical context, from France to Holland to England. The work sowed the idea that religious persecution and coercion are stratagems made up by the devil to destroy the kingdom of God. Acontius' work prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflicts. In Revolutionary England it was propagated by latitudinarians and independents, but also harshly censored by Presbyterians as a dangerous Socinian book. Giorgio Caravale casts new light on the reasons why both Catholics and Protestants welcomed this work as one of the most threatening attacks to their religious power. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of toleration, in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation across Europe
A Lasting Intellectual Friendship. An Interview with Emilio Gentile (with Lorenzo Benadusi)
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