Converting a Nation: A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy

by A. Lang

Overview

Examining a variety of newspapers, novels, and Inquisition trials, Lang demonstrates how the accounts of conversion to the Catholic Church provide an unusual political opinion with serious ramifications in the shaping of national Italian identity during unification.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230606722
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/17/2008
Series:	Studies in European Culture and History
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	247
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

ARIELLA LANG is Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature, Barnard College, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: TRIALS Reading Between the Lines: Inquisition Texts and Catholic Conquests Re-writing the Jew in Restoration Italy: The Stories of Salvatore Tivoli and Samuelle Cavalieri PART II: NOVELS Proselytization as Nationalist Project: Alessandro Manzoni the Convert(er) Conversion and National Identity: A Reading of Bresciani's L'Ebreo di Verona PART III: THE CATHOLIC PRESS Private Letters, Public Stories: From the De Joux Conversion(s) to the Mortara Affair