Tolleranza e intolleranza. Lectio magistralis di Adriano Prosperi. Introduce Nicola Gasbarro

A near/far 2014 event in collaboration with Multiverso The year of the discovery of America, 1492, has become firmly established in European history as the beginning of modernity. But a closer look reveals that in that year, along with the human otherness of the savage, other figures of "otherness" entered the construction of the Spanish legal model of statehood: the Jew, the Muslim, the heretic. The erasure of religious differences, for centuries a characteristic of the Iberian region and a source of richness for its culture, had its decisive impact in the mass expulsion of the Jews by a state power that guaranteed the religious purity of the people, thanks to the ecclesiastical tribunal of the Supreme Inquisition. It was in this context that Christian anti-Judaism, a traditional form of religious intolerance, first transformed into racial anti-Semitism. Nicola Gasbarro - Professor of Cultural Anthropology and History of Religions at the University of Udine. He researches issues related to historical-religious comparison and the anthropology of complexity. He is president of the scientific committee of vicino/lontano. Adriano Prosperi - Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. His most recent works include: Heresies and Devotions. Italian Religion in the Modern Age, in 3 volumes (History and Literature 2010); The Seed of Intolerance (Laterza 2011); Crime and Forgiveness (Einaudi 2013).