Vita e Pensiero

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The author aims to revive the figure of Deacon Hilary, a man who was personally involved in a fourth century schism in Rome...

At the beginning of the twelfth century, a bishop of Valencia, fleeing his city, which had just been reconquered by the Muslims, sailed to Jerusalem. He died, on the way, in Bari, where he left a relic of St. Vincent of Saragossa in the hands of the local archbishop Elia. Part of the relic would then be moved to Venice, where it is documented from the seventeenth century onwards, and finally returned to Valencia, that venerates the martyr as its patron...

The Franciscan Servasanto da Faenza is the author of several sermons and moral treatises, composed in central Italy (and mostly in Florence) in the second half of the thirteenth century. Servasanto’s works deserve attention due to their distinctive features (e.g., the vast number of references to philosophical, classical and scientific sources), and also because they are conceived in a milieu that is particularly relevant to medieval literature and art...

This article analyzes Riccoldo da Monte di Croce’s Libellus ad nationes Orientales in the context of the conversion strategies promoted by the Dominican Order at the end of the 13th century. The hasty drafting and the lack of a univocal judgment on the orthodoxy of non-Chalcedonian confessions suggest that Riccoldo wrote this work for practical purposes...

The solemn privilege granted by Callistus II on 24 September 1120 to the Church of Aversa has a particular significance. It not only strengthens the configuration of the Aversa diocese in relation to civil society and the other surrounding bishoprics, but also enhances its historical identity which coincides in a singular way with the birth and the progressive affirmation of the county of Aversa, the first Norman county in South Italy...

The work examines two unpublished parchments: with the first one Enrico Scrovegni donated in 1311 lands and a village in Padua to the Cistercians of Chiaravalle in Milan to found a new monastery of that congregation. With the second record, from 1316, he exchanged these lands with the consent of the monks with others, always located in Padua...