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Il Processo a Gesu' di Diego Fabbri e i commenti della stampa cattolica italiana. Fra deicidio e persecuzioni

2011; BraDypUS; Volume: 7; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1473/stor95

2282-6033

Elena Mazzini,

Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

This article intends to examine Diego Fabbri's play, 'The Trial of Jesus', and its reception by the Italian Catholic press in the mid Fifties. The play and the comments generated by the press demonstrated how the circulation of Anti-Semitic prejudices is reflected through the mise en scene of Jesus' death provoked, according to theological catholic stereotype, by the Jews. The guilt felt by the Jewish people for having killed the Messiah -the deicide's guilt- had a leading role both in the play and in the Catholic press that have linked this supposed Jewish culpability to the massacres suffered by the Jews over the centuries.