Vita e Pensiero

The attitudes to the death in the Christian West have been investigated, till now, through the testamentary practices, which were analyzed in various ways and gave discordant results. Instead, it has been neglected the fate which had to face, once dead, those who had not entrusted the inheritance of property and their salvation to the testamentary document, because of their own will or of their sudden death...

The theme of marriage and family was at the centre of the Church’s Magisterium and its pastoral care throughout the twentieth century. At the end of the nineteenth century, Leo XIII realized a real turning point devoting an entire encyclical to the Christian family...

Henry VI’s charter for S. Maria Assunta in Asola (MN), dated 1192 July 27, has long been suspected to be a forgery but never underwent critical diplomatic analysis. This essay aims to finally settle the question...

Storia di Bonfilio, un monaco-vescovo alla prima crociata. Atti del Convegno di studio nel IX centenario della morte (1115-2015) (Cingoli, 25-26 settembre 2015), a cura di Massimiliano Bassetti - Nicolangelo D’Acunto (Caterina Ciccopiedi) p. 231 – Camaldoli e l’ordine camaldolese dalle origini alla fine del XV secolo, a cura di Cécile Caby - Pierluigi Licciardello (Raffaele Savigni) p. 235 – Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Libellus Dialogorum, a cura di Simona Iaria (Michele Lodone) p. 244 – Angelo Turchini, Cultura del libro, chierici e modernizzazione. ‘Inventari’ di biblioteche del clero della città e arcidiocesi di Milano (Luca Ceriotti) p. 246.

After being subjected to a thorough investigation, the record No. 19 of the Registrum by Petrus Diaconus (JL †4040), which was considered to be a complete forgery by editions and catalogues, reveals its partial authenticity...

Bernardo degli Uberti († 1133), abbas maior of Vallombrosa (1098-1099), cardinal legate and apostolic vicar in Lombardy (1099-1109) and finally bishop of Parma (1106-1133) is one of the main figures of the reform movement who acted in northern Italy between the eleventh and the twelfth centuries...