Vita e Pensiero

Abbonamento annuale alla RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA CHIESA IN ITALIA

Primo fascicolo del 2021

This paper offers an unprecedented analysis of two main hagiographies of Hermachoras of Aquileia, BHL 3838 and 3840 – the latter never having been considered by scholars so far. Our investigation includes comparisons with other texts, especially De episcopis Mettensibus by Paul the Deacon, leading to an accurate chronology of the hagiographies, twice modified in the Early Middle Ages within a short period of time because of the Three Chapters Controversy and the division of the local ecclesiastical seat...

Our essay focuses on Pope Felix V of Basel’s relationship with the mendicant orders between 1439 and 1449. During that decade, the religious map of Savoy was redesigned as a result of multiple factors. Factionalism among friars and monks acted as a sounding board for the restlessness of the 15th century monastic world, fueling uncertainty and instability, whilst exacerbating the ongoing conflicts between Reformed and Conventuals...

The mission to Kongo and Angola that Propaganda Fide entrusted to Italian Capuchins began in the 1640s. The reports drawn up by the missionaries in the following fifty years are useful to define the true meaning of mission. Even before setting out on a long and dangerous sea voyage, the missionaries had to deal with a constantly changing political situation in Europe that strongly affected the preparations for the ongoing mission...

The essay focuses on the first mission to southern Borneo carried out by the Theatine priest Father Antonino Ventimiglia, whose biographical profile is reconstructed, following his traces, retracing the steps of his journey through an extensive use of narrative and archival sources...

Paola Foschi, Domenico Cerami, Renzo Zagnoni, Monasteri benedettini nella diocesi di Bologna (secoli VII-XV), a cura di Paola Foschi (Silvia Carraro) - «Non ore orandum solo» nelle vicende del monastero di Santa Grata «in Columnellis» a Bergamo, a cura di Mariarosa Cortesi (Caterina Cappuccio) - Renzo Fantappiè, Eresia e Inquisizione a Prato (secoli XII-XIV) (Riccardo Parmeggiani) - Daniele Solvi, Il canone agiografico di san Bernardino (post 1460) (Marco Guida)