Among the various dignities mentioned in the documentation, the provost (for administrative aspects) and the magiscola emerged for their importance. The essay analyses the introduction of common life, the social composition of the chapter and its relations entertained with external powers, in particular the bishop of Parma. Although the sources do not allow a precise prosopography of the canons to be drawn up, the social and political relevance of the chapter clearly emerges.
The essay aims to study the homiletic activity of Bernardino of Siena in its later form, through the analysis of the Paduan lenten of 1443, reported by Daniele da Porcìa and rewritten by Fra Girolamo da Venezia. It is a text which is still unpublished and mostly neglected by historiography. The homilies of 1443 constitute a perfect sylloge of the mature thought of the Tuscan friar and, in particular, the n. 27 of the collection, entitled Exortatio iustorum ad patientiam, sheds light on what pertains to the closely interconnected themes of infanticide and witchcraft, on which Bernardino had often insisted in the past. The resumption of these arguments after some time and their readaptation to the new context show to what extent he has become the spokesman of the most recent instances of learned debate, proposing them to his audience through adequate considerations and exempla.
The contribution reconstructs a key event for understanding the fifteenth-century origins of Franciscan female observance. It deals with a legal case that arose around the desire of the Poor Clares of Corpus Christi in Mantua to observe the Rule of Clare of Assisi in the correct way, distinguishing within it the norms that obliged under grave sin, the precepts, and others endowed with a less rigid obligation, the counsels. The article analyses the answers provided by John of Capistran, Niccolò of Osimo, Heinrich Kalteisen and Pope Eugene IV and puts forward some new hypotheses on the texts, on the affair as a whole and on its subsequent outcomes. It shows, finally, what was at stake behind the request of the Poor Clares, highlights their role in promoting and rejecting the legal reflection of the observant friars and highlights the will of the latter and the Roman Curia in directing the reform of the female monasteries.
In the first section, Serena Spanò Martinelli paints a picture of 15th century Milanese multi-facets writer Mombrizio. His various cultural interests, ranging from philology, to poetry, to history, side-to-side, sided with his activity as a civil servant for the Sforza government. He became increasingly aware of the potential of the newly invented press technology: his studies peak in the Sanctuarium, the first hagiographic collection directly designed for the press. In the second section, Michela Ventriglia recalls the documents relating to Mombrizio preserved in the Archivio di Stato of Milan and she publishes his will in full. This was known, but its contents, written in challenging notary writing, had not been analysed. It reveals someone different from the scholar that he projected in his writings: a caring father and husband, a wealthy citizen allocating funds to Ospedale Nuovo and to Fabbrica del Duomo, showing close links with the recent institutions of Observant Mendicant Friars.
The article aims to recognize some considerable features of the attitude with which, during the centuries of the Early Modern Age, the Congregation of the Benedictine Observance of Santa Giustina, then Cassinese, and the monasteries that were part of it used to face the event of receiving bequests, donations and other fruits of private generosity. The overall picture that emerges is that of an organization which, thanks also to the freedom of decision made possible by its patrimonial robustness, often chose to renounce the immediate material advantages that could have derived from this munificence, favoring instead the development a solid network of relationships, to which to appeal in cases of more serious need.
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the papal Curia and the city of Rome welcomed numerous agents representing bishops and archbishops, church councils or religious orders. They travelled to Rome to attend the general congregations of religious orders, to request papal briefs and bulls, to represent distant bishops on ad limina visits or to promote the causes of beatification and canonization of first American saints. The analysis of the role of the procurators of religious orders and American cathedrals is part of the most recent historiography, which has shown a renewed interest in the figure of the agent in the context of the government of the Hispanic monarchy. However, within this lively historiographical debate, the question of American agents in the papal curia has only been partially addressed. This contribution presents some results of an ongoing research on the different types of agents and procurators of the cathedrals of the Viceroyalty of Peru in the papal Curia and in the urban space of the Eternal City.
In the second half of the 18th century the problem of too many religious holidays seemed to haunt governments and reformers throughout most of Italy, who tried in every way to reduce them in order to improve the efficiency of their economies. Even in Venice the question was discussed since the late 1740s, but it took several decades, many debates and failed attempts and a long struggle with Rome, before a drastic reform of the religious calendar could be enacted (1787). This article aims to reconstruct this complex affair, replacing it in the political- religious climate of Italy at the time, investigating the reasons of those who supported or criticized the reduction of holidays, and the multiple causes that made this reform so complicated in the territories of the Serenissima.
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