Vita e Pensiero

Primo fascicolo del 2019

Since the beginning of his career, Luigi Fiorani devoted himself to Christian antiquities writing reviews for the journal «Studi Romani». In 1967 he started to study the Modern Age writing an essay about Onorato Caetani, who was a XVIIth century abbot and scholar. Archivist of the Fondazione Camillo Caetani and later of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, he was the editor of «Quaderni» and «Studi e documenti d’archivio», promoted by the Fondazione Camillo Caetani, and «Ricerche per la storia religiosa di Roma»...

This essay investigates the development of new instruments of taxation by the bishops during the thirteenth century. Like the urban Communes, the bishops were more inclined towards datium, a tax based on a fairer distribution of fiscal burdens...

By the end of the 14th century, Birgitta of Sweden’s Revelations, widely circulated throughout Europe, and were paricularly popular in Tuscany. The first ever vernacular translation of the Revelations was realized in Siena sometime before 1399. In the following years, this translation and other Birgittine texts were copied, in Latin or in vernacular, in the scriptorium of the Paradiso outside Florence, the first Birgittine monastery to be founded after Vadstena...

The reception of Christina of Sweden raised unusual status and gender issues as far as the papal ceremonial is concerned. Welcomed not as a queen in exile but as a queen in possession of full Sovereignity, Christina was given hospitality by an exclusively male court within the apostolic palaces...

This article aims to analyze the figure of the French Ursuline Marie Bon de l’Incarnation, drawing primarily on her biography, written by the Jesuit Jean Maillard, secondly on her work Stati di Orazione, described by Cardinal Albizzi as a main reference text for Piedmont’s “Quietists”...