LA TOLLERANZA RELIGIOSA IN QUANTO PROBLEMA DELL’ASSOLUTISMO: IL PENSIERO POLITICO DI JACOPO ACONCIO
The hotly debated issues that opposed, during the sixteenth century, the most radical reformers to the reformed religious authorities have induced Italian exiles to work out a model of religious tolerance, destined to defend their freedom of expression as well as to help themselves to escape persecu...
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| Language: | Italian |
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Edizioni Studio Domenicano
2013
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Divus Thomas
Year: 2013, Volume: 116, Issue: 3, Pages: 205-230 |
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| Summary: | The hotly debated issues that opposed, during the sixteenth century, the most radical reformers to the reformed religious authorities have induced Italian exiles to work out a model of religious tolerance, destined to defend their freedom of expression as well as to help themselves to escape persecution. In order to oppose the magistrate’s power, in such matters as were the liberty of conscience and the refusal of capital punishment, the Italian exiles emphasised their loyalty to certain main principles of the Reformation (viz. the principles of sola fide and sola Scriptura). Their arguments amount to a proof that, along with political disobedience and limits of power, the profession of tolerance itself has become an integrating factor in the definition of absolutism. My contribution aims to reconsider absolutism taking as a starting point the point of view of religious tolerance, with closer attention to the position of Jacob Acontius as it is maintained in the work of his that has gained most celebrity, amongst all of them: Satanae Stratagemata (1565). Le accese controversie dogmatiche che, durante il Cinquecento, opposero i protagonisti della riforma radicale alle autorità religiose riformate spinsero gli esuli italiani a elaborare un modello di tolleranza religiosa, nel tentativo di difendere la tanto desiderata libertà e sfuggire alle persecuzioni come eretici. Attraverso il recupero di alcune istanze dei primi riformatori (i principi del sola fide e sola Scriptura), i fuoriusciti italiani opposero al potere del magistrato il principio della libertà di coscienza e il rifiuto della pena capitale. La loro riflessione testimonia come, accanto ai temi della disobbedienza politica e dei limiti del potere, la tolleranza stessa contribuisca a definire la nozione di assolutismo. Questo articolo si propone pertanto di rileggere l’assolutismo a partire dalle proposte di tolleranza religiosa, con specifica attenzione alla posizione espressa da Jacopo Aconcio nella sua opera più celebre, i Satanae Stratagemata (1565). |
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