Vita e Pensiero

The Vita s. Iohannis Gualberti by Gregorio di Passignano was written in the last decades of the XII century in the light of Giovanni Gualberto’s canonisation (1193).

In recent years, several studies on female monasticism have shown that even the abbesses of some monasteries exercised a large personal power.

This essay analyzes, and attributes, a heraldic fresco, until now anonymous, painted in the church of Saint Mary of Casale in Brindisi, one of the most fascinating medieval monuments in Puglia. A detailed intersection of data taken from historical and heraldic sources (books of arms and seals) has made it possible to identify some of the coats of arms depicted in this work and to explain the context of their origin...

In the years 1439-1441 the observant friar Alberto of Sarteano accomplished a dangerous task entrusted to him by Pope Eugenius IV, that of bringing back from Egypt to the Council of Florence a Coptic delegation to negotiate the Union with the Church of Rome.

In the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, the practices of fasting and abstinence were less and less respected by Italian Catholics.

Between the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, cults and devotions represented a language whereby the Church communicated the dangers of modernity.

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