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One of the most important experience made by the Roman Catholic Church in the 20th Century concerns the meaning of "the other". Since the Middle Ages one of the defining point of the Christianitas was its difference in comparison to the other which was by definition an enemy. The Muslim, the Jew, and mostly the Heretic were paradigms of an unremedied distance between the sphere of salvation and the sphere of damnation: the role of the law was exactly that of identifying at whatever price the other and expel him from the Christian body.

Present (Ithaca, NY: 1984), 242-251 ("A note of method"). 4 Regarding the research about the historical development of this con-IÓ2ALBERTO MELLONI -to a text which embodies a stage of the reflection about Christendom: the letter Eger cui lenia, attributed to Innocent IV,5 -and its deployment almost a century afterward, in Ockham.6 cept, used by the French reactionaries just at the beginning of the XIXth century, see Daniele Menozzi, "Intorno alle origini del mito délia cristianità," Cristianesimo nelL• storia 5 (1984): 523-562 -as key-word of a "perfect" model of relations between church and society, begins with Jean Rupp, L'idée de Chrétienté dans la pensée pontificale des Origines à Innocent Ul (Paris: 1939); further inquiries were due to Gerhart B. Ladner, "Medieval Thought on Church and Politics," The Review of Politics 9 (1947): 403-421, then deepened in his "The Concept of Ecclesia and Christianitas and their relation to the idea of papal plenitude potestatis from Gregory VU to Boniface VUI," Misceüanea Hhtoriae Pontificiae 18 (1954): 42-77. More recent bibliography and renewed research is carried out by a group of scholars in the "Istituto per Ie Scienze Religiose" in Bologna, and now available in part in Chiese nella societa (Torino: 1981), in La chrétienté en débat (Paris: 1984), and in Cristianesimo neZia Storia 5 (1984), which is publishing the proceedings ofthe 1983 Symposium of the "Académie Internationale de Sciences Religieuses" and the Conference sponsored by the same Institute in January 1984. An excellent survey on the Xlllth-XIVth century approach, is Jeremy Cohen, The Friars and the Jews. The Evolution of Medieval Anti-judaism (Ithaca-London: 1982), 242-264. 5 For the church and society's relationship between the XHIth and the first half of the XIVth century, see

Ever since the pioneering work of Roberto Busa, computers have had an important work in humanistic research. The Istituto per le Scienze Religiose has been involved in such research since the 1970s. This article describes the Pope John XXIII project whose aim is to produce a computer-aided index of all the Pope's writings in both Italian and Latin; as well as future projects currently under consideration.

Traduzioni e circolazione delle idee nella cultura europea tra '500 e '700 Atti del convegno internazionaleFirenze, Dipartimento di Studi storici e geografici 22-23 Settembre 2006 a cura di Girolamo Imbruglia, Rolando Minuti e Luisa Simonutti note editoriali (nome puntato, cognome, titolo tra apici, Cromohs, numero (anno): 1-14, <URL:

Ilustración de cubierta: Detalle de Luis Paret y Alcázar: Carlos III comiendo ante su corte, ca. 1775 (Museo del Prado, Madrid) Colección La Corte en Europa, Temas 8 (Volumen II) © Ediciones Polifemo Avda. de Bruselas, 47 -5º 28028 Madrid www.polifemo.com ISBN (Obra Completa): 978-84-96813-81-6 ISBN (Volumen II): 978-84-96813-83-0

I gesuiti spagnoli espulsi e le élites italiane di fine Settecento Niccolò Guasti 1. I gesuiti spagnoli espulsi e il mestiere di precettore Uno dei tratti distintivi del lungo esilio imposto ai gesuiti spagnoli (1767-1815) può essere individuato nella loro capacità di integrarsi nella società italiana coeva, in particolare dopo la soppressione canonica della Compagnia decretata da Clemente XIV nel 1773 1 .