Vita e Pensiero

«Una pietra della quale si servono le genti cattive». Inquisizione e sortilegi a Siena nella prima età moderna digital

Anno: 2016

Thanks to the study of the inquisitorial documents preserved in the Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, this essay aims to provide a detailed picture of the use of magnets in the magical practice in the territory of Siena during the modern age...

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La successione ab intestato delle donne. Il fantasma della legge Voconia tra XII tavole e costituzione di papa Innocenzo XI digital

di Massimo Squillaci

Anno: 2016

The Great Courts of Papal State applied the Justinian Law in matters of women’s intestate succession, which equated men and women. For the noble families and the finances of the Papal State, the danger was that a woman, getting married to a citizen of another State, allowed huge patrimonies to leave the State...

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Chiara Isabella Fornari: l’immagine agiografica di una mistica fra Illuminismo e Restaurazione digital

di Chiara Coletti

Anno: 2016

Chiara Isabella Fornari (1697-1744) was born in Rome and became Poor Clare in the convent of S. Francesco in Todi, in Umbria, where she spent her entire life, marked by an intense spirituality and mystical phenomenons, and where, as abbess, she reformed the religious life of her monastery...

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Seminari e clero in Toscana in età napoleonica digital

di Maurizio Sangalli

Anno: 2016

After a short summary of the most recent studies on seminars, this essay considers the Tuscan case focusing on a specific historical period: that one of the Napoleonic domination at the beginning of the Nineteenth century...

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La silenziosa difesa di Karl Adam: significato e censura de L’essenza del cattolicesimo in Italia digital

di Alessandro Angelo Persico

Anno: 2016

This essay retraces the editorial process and censorship of The Spirit of Catholicism, a Karl Adam’s study appeared in Germany in 1924. The book was part of a rediscovery of mysticism and community dimension of the Church during the years between the two world wars, affecting ecclesiology and theology of the laity...

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Francesco Panigarola nel quadro dell’oratoria sacra di età tridentina: aspetti storiografici, in margine ad un recente libro digital