For registration please send an e-mail to info-event(at)dhi-roma(dot)it. The deadline for registration is 7 May 2021.

The theme of the workshop is the influence of Italian culture on the Antitrinitarian movements that spread through Europe in a more or less clandestine fashion during the Early Modern period. One of the objectives is to go back to the period preceding the activity of the Sozzini and of Servet: we will consider the influences of various trends in the Italian thought of the 15th and 16th centuries that made a crucial contribution to shaping the ideas of the Antitrinitarians about Biblical exegesis, spirituality, baptism and the Trinity. We will also discuss the mutual exchanges between different groups, in touch with one another despite the ongoing persecutions by both Catholics and Protestants, in the later phases of the early modern period.

Programme
13:15–13:30 Martin Baumeister (Director of the GHI), welcome
Chair: Riccarda Suitner (GHI)
13:30–14:15 Emese Balint (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): Influences, Networks and Circulation of the Radical Protestants in East Central Europe
14:15–15:00 Anne Overell (Durham University): Italian Nicodemites amidst Radical and Antitrinitarian Reformers
15:00–15:30 Break
15:30–16:15 Sven Grosse (Staatsunabhängige Theologische Hochschule Basel): Melanchthon – Servet. Surveying a controversy
16:15–17:00 Stefano Brogi (Università degli Studi di Siena): Arminiani e sociniani tra Grozio e Le Clerc
Discussants: Giorgio Caravale (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Riccarda Suitner (GHI), Pasquale Terracciano (Firenze, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento)
17:00 – 18:00 Break
18:00 Keynote lecture Ann Thomson (European University Institute): Antitrinitarianism in the 18th century
Discussant Girolamo Imbruglia (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Napoli)