Vita e Pensiero

This essay investigates the development of new instruments of taxation by the bishops during the thirteenth century. Like the urban Communes, the bishops were more inclined towards datium, a tax based on a fairer distribution of fiscal burdens...

By the end of the 14th century, Birgitta of Sweden’s Revelations, widely circulated throughout Europe, and were paricularly popular in Tuscany. The first ever vernacular translation of the Revelations was realized in Siena sometime before 1399. In the following years, this translation and other Birgittine texts were copied, in Latin or in vernacular, in the scriptorium of the Paradiso outside Florence, the first Birgittine monastery to be founded after Vadstena...

This article aims to analyze the figure of the French Ursuline Marie Bon de l’Incarnation, drawing primarily on her biography, written by the Jesuit Jean Maillard, secondly on her work Stati di Orazione, described by Cardinal Albizzi as a main reference text for Piedmont’s “Quietists”...

The history of Malta’s Magdalen Asylum represents a crucial example for analyzing practices and reformatory methods for penitent prostitutes throughout modern history. From the Santa Maria Maddalena Monastery, founded by Gran Maestro Verdala at the end of the 16th century, the paper will then analyze how the French and English control of the island influenced management and assistance of prostitution...

Since the mid-1960s, the Church and the Holy See responded to the pressure of globalisation and the rise in number of migrants by reflecting on the transformation of Western societies and the issue of Christians emigrating in search of better living conditions...

Giuseppe Cuscito, Trieste. Diocesi di frontiera. Storia e storiografia (Andrea Tilatti)Il processo di canonizzazione di Celestino V, tomo 1, a cura di Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli - Alfonso Marini, premessa di Agostino Paravicini Bagliani; Il processo di canonizzazione di Celestino V, tomo 2, a cura di Alfonso Marini (Pietro Messa)Anna Benvenuti, Sante donne di Toscana. Il Medioevo, con iconografia a cura di Raffaele Argenziano (Emanuele Carletti)Pierre Hurtubise, La cour pontificale au XVIe siècle d’Alexandre VI à Clément VIII (1492-1605) (Silvano Giordano)I ricordi di Vincenzio Borghini, a cura di Eliana Carrara - Maria Fubini Leuzzi, con una scheda codicologica di Veronica Vestri (Francesco Salvestrini)Rudj Gorian, Nascosti tra i libri. I periodici antichi della Biblioteca del Seminario patriarcale di Venezia (1607-1800) (Pierluigi Giovannucci)Vincenzo Tizzani, Effemeridi romane, I, 1828-1860, a cura di Giuseppe M. Croce (Mariano Dell’Omo)