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.

Preface
Alessandro Saggioro, Sapienza University, Rome
The Crux of Peace: An Introduction
Maria Fallica
1. Theological and Philosophical Bases for Dialogue Between Religions in Cusanus’ De pace fidei
Beatrice Tramontano
2. Pius II, Nicholas of Cusa, and the Crusade to Retake Constantinople and Jerusalem
Nathan Ron, University of Haifa
3. The Political Peace of Luis Vives and the Religious Peace of Pico della Mirandola: Philosophical Perspectives Between Italy and Spain
Manuel López Forjas and Veronica Tartabini,both at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
4. Peace, Prophecy, and the Apocalyptic Expectation: Girolamo Benivieni’s Letter to Clement VII
Maria Fallica
5. The Ambiguities of Erasmus’ Religious Peace: A Reading of De amabili ecclesiae concordia (1533)
Ludovico Battista
6. The Cosmopolitan Pacifism in Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More
Antonello Mori and Antonio Senneca, both at University College Cork
7. A Material Peace: The World of Objects as a Meeting Point Between Islamic and Christian Tradition in the Late 16th century Spain
Francisco 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 Perspective
Alberto Hernández Pérez, University of Granada
9. Religious co-existence in Malta, 1530-1798
Frans Ciappara, University of Malta
10. Tolerance, Peace and Otherness in Spanish Jesuit Thought of the Baroque Period
David Martín López, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
11. Tiered Tolerance’: Protestants and the ‘Other’ after 1685
Nora Baker, University of Oxford
12. Religious Freedom and History of Religions in Benjamin Constant
Roberto Celada Ballanti, University of Genoa