Excluded, segregated, doubly strange, the so-called Marranos—Jewish converts from the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula—inaugurate modernity with their divided self and their ambivalence. Victims of political violence and religious intolerance, not assimilable despite their forced baptism, the Marranos were no longer Jews, but neither were they Christians: they became "the other of the other." This is Di Cesare's starting point to offer a philosophical reflection on identity, psychoanalytic introspection, the political dimension and the birth of the modern era. The pig is a key figure to understand the unresolved conflict in which all existence is debated. From the mysticism of Teresa of Ávila to the concept of freedom of Baruch Spinoza, the converts were the precursors of the great pigs of reason who radically transformed thought, elevating their opposition to all forms of Inquisition to a philosophical category. Dissidents by necessity, survivors thanks to secrecy, the resistance of memory and keeping memories secret, the Marranos cannot be considered extinct. His story is not over.