(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 05 - A watershed year in the history of humanity, "because up until that moment the two parts of the world had lived on their own, without any contact: from then on, history has been integrated, for good and bad".
Alessandro Barbero talks about '1492' in the Special that RaiCultura offers on Saturday 8 October at 9.45 pm on Rai3 and Wednesday 12 October at 9.10 pm on Rai Storia, for the 530 years of the discovery of America.
Cristoforo Colombo and more: "This is a crucial year, which marks a before and an after", explains historian, university professor, writer, web superstar with hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and Spotify for his lessons to ANSA.
"The Catholic kings, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, complete the Reconquista of Spain, with dramatic consequences that anticipate the totalitarian and racist drift of modern Europe. convert to Christianity or go away: and the Jews go away en masse.
To welcome them, in part, is precisely the Muslim world, then more open and tolerant than us.
1492 is the beginning of modernity, therefore, with the splendor of its discoveries, but also with the suetragedies ", reflects Barbero. In this symbolic year" Lorenzo the Magnificent dies in Italy and Charles VIII thinks of the descent that two years later will mark the start of wars in our country, which will end conquered and subdued and will never again be at the center of the world as during the Renaissance ", underlines the historian, also author of the special, with David Savelli, directed by Graziano Conversano. The story will also be interspersed with testimonies of the characters of the time, played by actors. The basic idea "is to entertain and entertain, because history is a great entertainment.
But the hope is also that the
accustomed to hearing the story not told in a propagandistic, multi-sided way, you help to grasp the present in its contradictions, you train a critical vision in the sea of speeches that claim to tell 'a' truth.
And there are many and opposing ones ", he concludes. (ANSA).
