Vita e Pensiero

Primo fascicolo del 2023

A well-established historiographical tradition has presented great Benedictine abbeys and monasteries as institutions in charge of the bonification of territories and as protagonists of rural settlements. By virtue of their religious formation and discipline, the monks of the West, carriers of Christianity in ancient pagan territories, have been considered pioneers of colonization, as well as architects of the early medieval landscape...

In the Malatesta folder of the Gonzaga Archive in Mantua is preserved a letter of March 1, 1438, sent by the archbishop of Patras Pandolfo Malatesti to Gianfrancesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, in the framework of the preparation of the first session of the Council of Ferrara (1438)...

Recent historiography has focused on identifying the themes that over time have given substance to the broader framework of anti-Jesuit literature, with the aim of detecting the most widespread arguments used within the Catholic Church against Company of Jesus. To examine the phenomenon, limited to the Venetian context, this essay focalises on an unpublished text, the treatise of Giovanni Fatò On the hypocrisy of the Jesuits, to be found in a miscellaneous codex of the Herzog August Bibliothek of Wolfenbüttel...

The Paduan nobleman Antonio Maria Cortivo de Santi (1586-1650), following a sudden conversion, entered the Oratory of St. Jerome, originally established by the “unorthodox” Dominican friar Battista da Crema in 1519 and relaunched by Antonio Pagani in 1579...