Vita e Pensiero

This contribution aims to focus attention on the measures adopted by the Mendicant Orders to counteract the consequences of the shock represented by the great plague that spread across Europe between 1347 and 1350. The study concentrates on the analysis of legislative sources from the main orders that overcame the hurdle of the Second Council of Lyon in 1274, namely those of the Minors, the Preachers, the Hermits of Saint Augustine, the Carmelites, and the Servants of Mary...

The article focuses on community relations described and also generated by the practice of the pastoral visitation. The research analyzes four records of pastoral visitation dated between 1533 and 1584 and carried out by the bishop of Saluzzo in the Varaita Valley (Piedmont)...

This work presents the results of an initial phase of archival research on the convent of the Capuchin Poor Clares of Palermo which, to date, has not been specifically and punctually treated by historiography. After an overview of the archival sources used and the events that affected the convent’s archives after the suppression of monasteries (1866), the circumstances that led from the foundation of the first retreat (1717) to the construction of the current building (1732-1743) are outlined...

The essay illustrates the rediscovery of Dante and Manzoni by intransigent Catholicism in Bergamo during the late nineteenth-century. The two writers were claimed by Catholics against secular culture during their conflict with the Italian state...

Among the philosophical works of Valeriano Magni from Milan there is a short treatise on the Rule of Prudence, written by the Archbishop of Prague E.A. von Harrach, with whom he collaborated for the Catholic reform of the Bohemian diocese on behalf of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide from 1629...

Bibliografia degli scritti di Claudio Leonardi, a cura di Enrico Menestò (Giuseppe Fornasari) - Antonio Rigon, La vita che si fa storia: Studiosi e letture di storia medievale: Con un’intervista all’autore, a cura di Marco Bolzonella - Silvia Carraro - Maria Teresa Dolso (Francesco Mores) Alfonso Marini, Incontro sotto la tenda. Francesco d’Assisi, Malik al-Kāmil, l’Islam (Fulvio Delle Donne) Daniele Solvi, Rotundis quadrata mutare. Questioni francescane dalle origini ai Fioretti (Alfonso Marini) Representations of Humility and the Humble, a cura di Silvia Neg ri (Francesca Galli) Nico De Mico - Lubomir Žak, Lettere di Adriano VI su Martin Lutero e la riforma della Chiesa (Michele Cassese) Antonio Rosmini, Scritti autobiografici. Diari, a cura di Ludovico Maria Gadaleta (Jacopo De Santis)