Gli ebrei dello Stato pontificio tra fine dell’antico regime ed età napoleonica: periferie senza centro?

What attractiveness did the main pole of pontifical Judaism have on the other communities of the State? How was the center-periphery relationship built in relation to and within the Jewish world? In this contribution we will try to show, starting from an in-depth analysis of some legal disputes, how this relationship was marked, between the end of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, by a substantial absence of recognized and established hierarchies. To complete this process, paragraphs 2, 3 and 4, on the other hand, analyse some conflicts which occurred between the Roman community and the other communities of the State; paragraph 5 intends to provide a look at the Napoleonic era, as a temporal term of the period studied here and as an element of caesura, for the profound political upheavals it brought with it and which profoundly marked the history of the relationship between communities and with political authorities; finally, in paragraph 6, some concise concluding remarks follow.