Vita e Pensiero

After 1860, Pius IX decided that it was necessary to abolish the privilege of the Legazia Apostolica di Sicilia. It is for this purpose that he appointed a special commission entrusted to study the case and propose a solution...

The paper deals with the travel that mgr Piero Rossano, at that time secretary for the Secretariat for non Christians, did in Soviet Union in 1975 with fr. Chiavacci, senator Gozzini, his wife Vilma and an Italian writer, Gino Montesanto. In Montesanto’s archive the author found new information about this travel and about the meetings that Rossano had in Moscow, Zagorsk, Vilnius, Kaunas, Riga and Jurmala...

During the first years after the suppression, the ex-jesuits tried to keep alive the typical spirit of the Society. Between 1778 and 1781 Francesco Antonio Zaccaria sent 28 letters to Luigi Mozzi...

The Tractatus in expositionem vitae et regulae beati Benedicti was considered, even in recent times, as a sort of guide, a map, useful to try to recognize and follow the steps of the biographical thread of Joachim of Fiore, in a key period of his existence, characterized before by the adherence and then by the criticism of the Cistercian experience...

The article addresses the oldest preserved pastoral visits to the diocese of Bologna, dating back to the long episcopate of the Carthusian Niccolò Albergati (1417-1443). The six documented visits (1417, 1420, 1425, 1433, 1434, 1437) were carried out mainly by Episcopal vicars, but nevertheless Albergati’s role, even if indirect, was decisive. Starting from the experience gained as a visitor of the Italian Carthusian houses, the cardinal used pastoral visits as the most appropriate instrument for the development of a reformatory plan, whose guidelines were indeed suggested by the outcome of diocesan inspections...