Vita e Pensiero

Our essay looks into the rich correspondence between the Catholic journalist Ettore Masina and seventy-eight Italian bishops from May 1973 to February 1974. Masina requested them to sign an appeal for the promotion of the “Russell Tribunal II” against the use of torture in Brazil and other Latin American countries...

Our essay deals with the biography and thought of the Catholic politician, economist, and university professor Federico Marconcini (1883-1974). As an active exponent of the Catholic trade union organisations in the early 20th-century Turin, he was among the most important Piedmontese representatives of the Italian People’s Party founded by don Luigi Sturzo, in whose ranks Marconcini was elected deputy to the Italian Parliament three times...

Universiteit Antwerpen, Power in History – Centre for Political History (bruno.farinelli@uantwerpen.be).

Chiara Paniccia, I cantieri della Bibbia. Pittura e miniatura: il dialogo tra libro e parete in Italia centro-meridionale (secoli XI-XIII) (Claudia Quattrocchi); Através do olhar do Outro. Reflexões acerca da sociedade medieval europeia (séculos XII-XV), eds. José Albuquerque Carreiras - Giulia Rossi Vairo - Kristjan Toomaspoeg (Giovanni Strinna); Daniele Solvi, Il Mondo Nuovo. L’agiografia dei Minori Osservanti (Antonio Antonetti); Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida - María Victoria Curto Hernández, El Libro de la oración de María de Santo Domingo. Estudio y edición (Michele Lodone); Stefan Bauer, The Invention of Papal History. Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform (Michaela Valente); Immigrati e forestieri in Italia nell’Età moderna, a cura di Emanuele Pagano (Gennaro Cassiani)

The mural painting of Three living and three dead (14th century) in the Sacro Speco (Subiaco) bears graffiti. Among the oldest (15th and 16th cent.), some are comments on the subject of the fresco and are similar to texts inscribed on paintings portraying the same scene in different places in Italy; other graffiti are signatures of visitors and pilgrims, often from northern and eastern Europe...

The Holy Face of Manoppello is a veil preserved since the 17th century in the Capuchin sanctuary of this small town. On this veil is imprinted the image of the face of Jesus. The first part of the research is dedicated to the study of the jurisdictional conflicts born in the 17th century regarding the possession of the veil and the control of the devotional practices that developed around it. The second part analyzes the evolution of promoting the devotion to the Holy Face...