Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Rivista Storica Italiana
Angaben zur Quelle:
105,2 (1993) 555-581
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1500-1800
Abstract:
Discusses the revival of anti-Jewish discourse within the context of the Catholic Church's aggressive campaign against Enlightenment culture and the menace of "un-Christian" revolutionaries towards the end of the 18th century. In April 1775 a decree was issued by Pope Pius VI intended to curtail any Jewish influence on Christianity. In the same year, an anti-Jewish pamphlet, "Ristretto della vita e martirio di S. Simone fanciullo di Trento", was published by Francesco Rovira Bonet, rector of the Casa dei Catecumeni, in charge of the conversion of Jews. The same Rovira Bonet published in 1794, after the reiteration of the 1775 decree and a wave of anti-Jewish riots in Rome (1793), another work entitled "Armatura de' forti", abounding with anti-Jewish stereotypes, blaming Jews for conspiring against the Catholic order, together with Freemasons, philosophers, and all other French revolutionaries.
Note:
Appeared also in "La questione ebraica dall'Illuminismo all'Impero (1700-1815)", 1994.
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