Giuristi in fuga nell’Europa cinquecentesca : esuli religionis causa e ‘nuove’ percezioni giuridiche

Among the most striking consequences of the work of the Roman Inquisition, aimed at eradicating the heresy from sixteenth-century Italy, there was the escape from the peninsula of many jurists who, having embraced the ideas of the Protestant Reformation, were forced tochoose the path of the exile. The diaspora of Italian exiles, a phenomenon of vast proportions that testifies to the widespread adherence to the Reformation in almost all regions of Italy and in every social class, falls within the sphere of forced migration of a religious nature, which involved, on several occasions, the 16th century Europe. An attempt will be made to provide a general, necessarily summary picture of the complex problem of the religionis causaexiles, highlighting how the experience of exile favored a first definition of the concepts of libertas religionisand religious tolerance, in the laborious elaboration of new forms of coexistence in an age of irreducible controversies and incurable divisions

Ipsi sugunt sanguinem et medullam miserae plebis Franco-gallicae”: gli italiani in Francia nella lunga età moderna (XIV-XX secolo)

At the base of the state and social policies towards immigrants,there are always the reactions of local people: these, however, can be concrete or only feared. Also, if concrete, may be the result of a spontaneous motion, or can be caused by a particular social group or by those in power. On this question we have a very rich and very interesting literature. However, the analyses are generally targeted at the present or, at most, at the immediate past. Instead the problem is much older so that the evolution of the modern State is often linked to immigration. A particularly interesting case is that of acceptance of Italians in France, because their migration dates to medieval times and it is therefore contemporary to the development of the French state and the French national consciousness.pd

Alterità

The contributions collected in this volume are the result of the seminars organized by the Laboratory of Modern History during its ten-year activity (from 2003 to 2013) within the Department of Historical and Geographical Studies (now called SAGAS Department) of the University of Florence. Thanks to the participation of Italian and international colleagues, as well as young scholars, this annual cycle of seminars, entitled Temi e problemi della storia moderna (“Themes and problems of Modern History”), aims at encouraging the scientific community to discuss and reflect critically on topics of great historical importance. The theme of otherness is central in the Modern Age as well as in in the contemporary world, and it has been the subject of several seminars. The essays reconstruct significant moments and aspects of the relationships with “the other” in modern Europe: political models and cultural paradigms, cities of refuge and institutes of conversion, attitudes showing integration and/or exclusion of the Jews, Muslims, heretics and foreigners have been analysed in the volume according to the Laboratory’s 'pluralistic spirit’

Alterità

The contributions collected in this volume are the result of the seminars organized by the Laboratory of Modern History during its ten-year activity (from 2003 to 2013) within the Department of Historical and Geographical Studies (now called SAGAS Department) of the University of Florence. Thanks to the participation of Italian and international colleagues, as well as young scholars, this annual cycle of seminars, entitled Temi e problemi della storia moderna (“Themes and problems of Modern History”), aims at encouraging the scientific community to discuss and reflect critically on topics of great historical importance. The theme of otherness is central in the Modern Age as well as in in the contemporary world, and it has been the subject of several seminars. The essays reconstruct significant moments and aspects of the relationships with “the other” in modern Europe: political models and cultural paradigms, cities of refuge and institutes of conversion, attitudes showing integration and/or exclusion of the Jews, Muslims, heretics and foreigners have been analysed in the volume according to the Laboratory’s 'pluralistic spirit’