The paper proposes a re-reading of Mariangela Ripoli’s remarks on tolerance that she framed at the end of the Nineties regarding the public debate that had characterized the eighteenth century in England and of the forecasts of certain understandings in the contemporary world from her "Toland and the Jews" essay. The author takes the opportunity to retrace the preparatory work for this essay by interweaving Ripoli’s studies on Judaism and religious tolerance in eighteenth-century England with some personal memories.