The Jews, Instructions for Use

Paolo L. Bernardini is professor of Modern European History at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy. He is the author or editor of 35 books in Italian and English, including Le rive fatali di Keos. Il suicidio nella storia intellettuale europea da Montaigne a Kant (2009), Fragments From a Land of Freedom: Essays in American Culture and Civilization Around the Year 2000 (2010), and Di qua e di là del mare. Venezia e il mondo universo (2010). Diego Lucci is associate professor of History and Philosophy at the American University in Bulgaria. His research focuses on the English Enlightenment, the history of Jewish-Gentile relations, and cultural intermediaries and travelers in the long eighteenth century. He is the author of the volume Scripture and Deism: The Biblical Criticism of the Eighteenth-Century British Deists (2008), and has published numerous articles.