Date/Time
Date(s) - 5 Dec 2013
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location
Casa Hispanica, 201
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Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and Hispanic Institute present:
Stefania Pastore (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Title: Spain and Italy and the Culture of Skepticism
Date: Thursday, December 5, 2013
Time: 2 pm
Location:
Casa Hispánica (The Sobejano Library – Room 206)
612 W. 116th
New York, NY 10027
Abstract:
The paper will focus on the circulation of forms of skepticism and tolerance between Italy and Spain during the first half of the sixteenth century. The movement that we shall term “popular Averroism” acquired, over this period, different and interesting facets, ranging from the deep-rooted belief that “no hay mas que vivir y morir,” which enjoyed a rather widespread popularity, to the belief that salvation could be attained through each Law, to the ideas of double or common revelations. Behind this variety of solutions lay the need to compare the substance of different Laws and discover solutions that could reconcile the simultaneous presence of three separate cultures and favor their everyday coexistence, even in the mono-confessional Spain of the Inquisition. By presenting a series of examples garnered from Inquisitorial documents, I will attempt a mapping of these different attitudes and try to show how they were reflected in the thought of an intellectual of such caliber as Diego Hurtado de Mendoza.
Biography:
Stefania Pastore teaches early modern history at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and is currently a visiting fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. Among other works, she is the author of Il vangelo e la spada: l’inquisizione di Castiglia e i suoi critici (1460-1598) [The Gospel and the Sword: The Inquisition of Castile and its Critics, 1460-1598] (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2003), and Una herejía española: Conversos, alumbrados e Inquisición (1449-1559) [A Spanish Heresy: Conversos, Alumbrados and Inquisition (1449-1559)] (Marcial Pons: Madrid, 2010).