This time I would like to submit to the participants in my Kolloquium something
different from my usual papers on Antitrinitarianism. This is a text I have written
for a collective volume on "profanation" in the early modern period, for which
I would be very grateful to receive comments/suggestions for
improvements. The Italian Enlightenment thinker Clemente Baroni Cavalcabò
is an unknown figure. He is the author of a treatise, which tries
to demonstrate, using scientific, philosophical, and exegetical arguments, the
powerlessness of the devil, interpreting, in particular, German sources in an
original way. This attempt was not anachronistic at all at the time, as in the mid-
18th century many European regions – especially southern Germany and
northern Italy - were still theaters of public executions of witches.
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