Conversaciones y testimonios del padre Amorth, uno de los exorcistas italianos más conocidos, con el periodista Roberto Italo Zanini. Esta obra es un cara a cara con los misterios del mal y con la actuación de Satanás a través de la experiencia del padre Amorth. A lo largo de sus páginas, se recogen sus testimonios y sus consejos para defenderse no sólo de las posesiones, sino también de los maleficios y de los ataques del mal. Más fuertes que el mal trata temas candentes como la acción y el poder de los magos, hechiceras y adivinos y la eficacia de los maleficios que provocan enfermedades y depresiones agudas. El padre Amorth advierte también del riesgo de algunos grupos ligados a sectas satánicas, del rock satánico, de ciertos programas violentos de televisión, del mundo de la magia y del chamanismo.

This colorful memoir offers a rare, up-close glimpse of the life and personality of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, the beloved Italian monk who was blessed with extraordinary gifts. The late Fr. Amorth—well-known as an exorcist —enjoyed over two decades of a close friendship with the holy, quirky Padre Pio, whom he considered his spiritual father. Adding his own personal experience to a foundation of biographical research, Amorth gives an entertaining and illuminating account of perhaps one of the best-known saints of the twentieth century. In this book, we span from Padre Pio''s childhood—where he cured himself of a disease by wolfing down all his mother''s fried bell peppers—to his miracle-filled priesthood, to his Italian gift for mimicry, humor, and storytelling. Rather than a plaster image of a saint, this book is a portrait of a fully human kind of holiness, proof that even the most astonishing graces can be lived out with simplicity and joy.

Sephardim are the descendants of the Jews expelled from the lands of the Iberian Peninsula in the years 1492-1498, who settled down in the Mediterranean basin. The identifying sign of the Sephardim has been, until the middle of the twentieth century, the language known as Jewish-Spanish. The history, identity and memory of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean dispersal are analysed by the author with a special reference to the Sephardi community of Jerusalem and to the cultural and social changes that characterized the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. However, because of the crucial changes related to modernization and the political circumstances that came into being at the turn of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, the Sephardim lost their unique identity.