Talk:Peter Remondino

Jewish?

While the evidence seems to be meager either way, I strongly suspect that Remondino was of Jewish ancestry/heritage if not practice or faith. After all, he was reportedly born into a Protestant (!) family in Turin (hardly a hotbed of Protestantism). Later on he became a fervent advocate of circumcision. Incidentally, the only contrary evidence comes from his autobiography (where he mentions Italian-Catholic as opposed to Hebraic ancestry), but being an autobiography, it is likely fabricated. This wikipedean suspects that the Remondino family were Marranos but I agree that it should not be mentioned until proper citation can be found. Any sources for that?

• In the mean time, I think we should remove any and all mention of his ethnicity or religion pending citation. Consider that...
• I am convinced that P.C. Remondino was a Jew, however I would NOT identify him as such until I can find the proper source.
• In either case, he was not Italian (neither by ethnicity, nor by nationality as Italy did not yet exist as a nation-state when P.C. Remondino was born nor any time he has lived there) or Italian-American. He was a "Piedmontese Jew" or a "Savoyard Jew" or a "Turinese Jew" (and his paternal ancestry was Lombard Jewish), or at best a Piedmontese/Turinese of indeterminate ethnicity.
• Likewise, describing him as a "Protestant" or from a "Protestant family" may be technically correct but it is misleading. After all, we would not say that "Karl Marx was born in Prussia to a Protestant family." (But then Marx's Jewishness is hardly controversial knowledge.) Interestingly, the only source on Remondino being "Protestant" or from a "Protestant family" is a book by Leonard Glick. I am not attacking Glick's scholarship, ethics, honesty, integrity, or reliability. However Glick is of Jewish background, so he has motive to obscure Remondino's ancestry, thus protecting his Tribe. I DO NOT mean that in a racist or "anti-Semitic" sense. There are good Jews and there are bad Jews. Remondino was a very bad Jew, an evil Jew who tricked American gentiles into maiming and mutilating the genitals of their male population using his vile lies, Glick is a good Jew who opposes such a vile practice. But understandably Glick needs to cover for his people. I'm not saying Glick lied (at least in the sense of fabricating information or presenting falsehood as truth), I am just saying that he avoided investigation, at worst "lied through omission." That said, your source is biased.
• I would describe Remondino thusly:

Peter Charles Remondino

• Nationality: American
• Ethnicity: Jewish (Sephardic or Italian-Jewish)
• Birth Place: Turin (Kingdom of Sardinia)
• Religion: Waldensian (nominal?), likely practiced Judaism in secret

However, I DO NOT think that information should be placed in the article until proper citation is found. (Otherwise that would constitute original research.) Accordingly, any reference to his being an ethnic Italian should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.175.139.97 (talk) 16:28, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Family History

Another thing, there are two more significant problems with this article, both glaringly obvious. The first, is that the article tells us nothing about why P.C. Remondino was famous. Namely, his fame comes from promoting Judaic male genital mutilation among Gentile Americans. However, this is not mentioned in the article. Which brings up the second issue, that of his falsified family history. The alleged Italian Catholic ancestor alluded to above was one Mondino de Liuzzi, who was perhaps better known by the Latinized form of his name, Mundinus. However, aside from the fact that the Jew Remondino provided no evidence corroborating any relation to Mondino in his autobiography, his attempt at forging a genealogical link falls flat on its face. His only citation for being a descendent of the famous Mondino/Mundinus comes from the Dizionario Biografico Universale:

• "Mondino, abbreviation of Remondino, latinized as Mundinus, a celebrated anatomist, a native of Milan, according to some authorities, and of Florence according to others, towards the end of the thirteenth century, died in Bologna in 1326."

Aside from the fact that outside of that particular book it is not evident that "Mondino" is abbreviated from, derived from, or otherwise related to "Remondino" Mondino was not even a surname or family name of that Italian doctor of the 13th and 14th centuries. Mondino was his given name. Italian surnames were not even beginning to become standardized that far back in history. If anything, his family name was "de Liuzzi"/"de Lucci"/"de Luzzi" so tracing descent via the paternal surname Remondino to the doctor Mondino is dubious at best. (And the fact that many latter members of Mondino's family also bore the (given) name Mondino or variants thereof is irrelevant. It is common practice in many cultures to name kids after older relatives living and dead. Fact is Mondino was a given name, NOT a surname.) If anything, it is far more likely that Peter Charles Remondino was descended from a Sephardic Jew from Spain named "Reymundo" (Reymundo being a common Spanish name) on his father's side, who then applied the Italianized form of his name as the patronymic surname Remondino. Either way, absolutely NOTHING in P.C. Remondino's autobiography can be taken at face value, everything must be taken with a huge grain of salt. And he had strong motive to lie about his ancestry. In this particular case, not merely to conceal his Jewish ancestry by pointing out an Italian Catholic ancestor (and living in Italy at that time, it can be assumed that Mondino the doctor was Roman Catholic given that ALL Italians were Roman Catholic in that historical setting, surely the popes would not condone vivisections performed on human cadavers by a Jew), but to bolster his own "credentials." Essentially arguing, "see? That guy is not just some quack! He is descended from a long line of famous doctors!"

So, on that note, I am deleting the entire "Family history" section. Considering that the only source for that is P.C. Remondino's autobiography, it is not reliable information. Autobiographies are almost never reliable sources, and I am not sure that they would usually meet Wikipedia standards for sources, though I suppose in some contexts autobiographies can be used. Certainly, not, however, any autobiography as self-aggrandizing as his. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.175.139.97 (talk) 14:10, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Why go to the bother of mentioning Torino being in the "the Kingdom of Sardinia"

...if not even bothered to list a link to the Kingdom of Sardinia wiki page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.39.0 (talk) 21:54, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

The racist Remondino law requiring all Negro boys to be routinely circumcised.

law requiring all Negro boys to be routinely circumcised, since the surgery was guaranteed to keep their innate lust within reasonable bounds. http://www.historyofcircumcision.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=63 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.39.0 (talk) 22:21, 14 March 2017 (UTC)