Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses

Ludovico Battista (PhD, Sapienza University of Rome) is a researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. Maria Fallica (Ph. D., Sapienza University of Rome) is a researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. Beatrice Tramontano recently received her PhD from Sapienza University of Rome. Ludovico Battista (PhD, Sapienza University of Rome) is a researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. Maria Fallica (Ph. D., Sapienza University of Rome) is a researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. Beatrice Tramontano recently received her PhD from Sapienza University of Rome. Ludovico Battista (PhD, Sapienza University of Rome) is a researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. Maria Fallica (Ph. D., Sapienza University of Rome) is a researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. Beatrice Tramontano recently received her PhD from Sapienza University of Rome.

• PrefaceAlessandro Saggioro, Sapienza University, Rome The Crux of Peace: An IntroductionMaria Fallica1. Theological and Philosophical Bases for Dialogue Between Religions in Cusanus’ De pace fideiBeatrice Tramontano2. Pius II, Nicholas of Cusa, and the Crusade to Retake Constantinople and JerusalemNathan Ron, University of Haifa3. The Political Peace of Luis Vives and the Religious Peace of Pico della Mirandola: Philosophical Perspectives Between Italy and SpainManuel López Forjas and Veronica Tartabini,both at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 4. Peace, Prophecy, and the Apocalyptic Expectation: Girolamo Benivieni’s Letter to Clement VIIMaria Fallica5. The Ambiguities of Erasmus’ Religious Peace: A Reading of De amabili ecclesiae concordia (1533)Ludovico Battista6. The Cosmopolitan Pacifism in Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas MoreAntonello Mori and Antonio Senneca, both at University College Cork7. A Material Peace: The World of Objects as a Meeting Point Between Islamic and Christian Tradition in the Late 16th century SpainFrancisco Moreno, University of Castilla-La Mancha 8. Political and Religious Moderates in the Wars of Religion in France and the Revolt of the Netherlands: A Comparative PerspectiveAlberto Hernández Pérez, University of Granada 9. Religious co-existence in Malta, 1530-1798Frans Ciappara, University of Malta10. Tolerance, Peace and Otherness in Spanish Jesuit Thought of the Baroque PeriodDavid Martín López, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha 11. Tiered Tolerance’: Protestants and the ‘Other’ after 1685Nora Baker, University of Oxford12. Religious Freedom and History of Religions in Benjamin ConstantRoberto Celada Ballanti, University of Genoa