Conflitti religiosi nella Milano imperiale. Ilario di Poitiers e il programma neoniceno in Occidente. Aussenzio di Milano e una reliquia dell'omeismo latino

The latest polemical work written by Hilary of Poitiers is directed against Auxentius on the occasion of the failed attempt to remove him from the episcopal see of Milan (ca. 364). This study offers a reconstruction of the dispute between Hilary and Auxentius in the frame of the pro-Nicene program, promoted by the bishop of Poitiers after his re turn from eastern exile, paying attention to the documents, chronology and nature of the Milan debate. Alongside the Contra Auxentium, a portion of the manuscript tradition provides the letter that the bishop of Milan addressed to the emperors Valentinian I and Valens in his own defence, containing a creed and the notes in which the author explains his accession to the Homoian Council of Rimini (359). The second part of the study is dedicated to the analysis of this profession, compared to other Homoian creeds.