Pietro Giannone: an italian and european thorny illuminist

Starting in February, the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana offers a new series of meetings , organized by Tiziana Plebani Historical Office - Learning , entitled "Lessons from History" : Historic and historical recount the passion of research. For the first meeting, Tuesday, February 25, 2014 , at 10 am, in the vestibule of the Sansovino Library (entrance from the Piazzetta San Marco 13 / a , Venice) , Joseph Ricuperati will hold a conference on the theme "One awkward Italian and European Enlightenment : Pietro Giannone and the works of the prison ", for it explores issues of Triregno , a masterpiece of the European Radical literature , born in the crucible of Vienna.
The Apologia de ' scholastic theologians and the Story of the pontificate of Gregory the Great are reinterpreted and presented in the light of the wanderings of the philosopher and the role of Venice in their development , from the recent critical edition , prepared under the scientific direction of Professor. Joseph Ricuperati : Apologia de scholastic theologians , introduction and edited by Joseph Ricuperati , edition and commentary by Liliana Cecchetto , Turin, Nino Aragno Publisher , 2011 and Story of the pontificate of Gregory the Great, introduction and edited by Joseph Ricuperati , edition and commentary by Chiara Peyrani , Turin, Nino Aragno Publisher , 2011.
 
Pietro Giannone
Born in Ischitella May 7, 1676 and died in Turin March 17, 1748 , was one of the protagonists of radical Enlightenment Europe. Author of some of the most important works of the first half of the eighteenth century , hunted throughout Italy by the Roman Inquisition , was arrested in Savoy in March 1736 to be exchanged by the skilful and powerful demonic minister footprint with the resumption of the Benedictine agreed .

Joseph Ricuperati
Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Turin , a member and leader of several Italian academies , including the Lincei , currently Director responsible for the " historic Italian Magazine " . Specialist of the European Enlightenment and its eco historiography , in particular the thought of Pietro Giannone , is the author of numerous monographs, major historiographical essays and various works of popular science . Part of his books, from the first , the experience of civil and religious Pietro Giannone , Milan - Naples , Ricciardi , 1970 were born in the space of Venice, where he keeps a precious copy of Triregno , whose discovery dates back to the Venetian unforgettable , Gianfranco Torcellan ; discovery that has imposed a new edition of Triregno . Recovered intends to seize the dual role played by Venice against Giannone : his return trip from Vienna , meetings accomplices , the eviction intimatogli by the Inquisitors of State, disturbed by the process of atheists , hunting inquisitors Roman imperial protection , the short stay in Geneva, the stubborn cultural battle . The reinterpretation of Ricuperati also aims to enhance the works that have been censored and who have not circulated immediately. The historian must fully respect the authors and their thinking , beyond the shackles of censorship : Books and manuscripts are in fact ' live large ' that creative men leave to posterity.

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