Il nemico oltremarino come alterità integrata? Casi di ebrei e musulmani nei retabli di Sardegna (1492- 1556)

The essay discusses the appearance of Moors, Muslims, Jews, Turks, heretics and conversos in the retablos of the Crown of Aragon territories, though focusing on Sardinian painting. It is examined how, after the Edict of Expulsion and during the dangerous contacts between Charles V and the Ottoman Empire, images could induce conversion and stigmatisation of otherness, and at the same time conceal the plain-yet-unlawful social integration — only permeated by a censorious moral judgement. Also taken into consideration are the role played by Franciscan preaching and political trends in the shaping of how the Other is perceived, and the adoption of a characterisation implying the faults usually ascribed to other marginalised and discriminated categories, such as peasants and the lower classes.