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. In particular, the contribution dwells on the decrees issued by the general chapters, the main assembly of the friars, from which emerge the issues that the different hierarchies deemed necessary to face in those delicate times.
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). It deals with the link between the parish and the community through lexical analysis and observation of the ceremonial and ritual practices. At that time, both institutions were structured and defined from a community perspective, they were interconnected, but separated. The long-term approach, from the late Middle Ages until the first decades after the Council of Trent, allows us to reflect on this topic, highlighting the developments.
The essay reconstructs, from a canonical and ecclesiological perspective, the institutions and ecclesiastical offices that determined the governance of dioceses in Italy from the Council of Trent to the threshold of the Second Vatican Council. This analysis takes into account both the interaction between the Roman Curia and the local Churches and the complex problems of the application of the Tridentine decrees. Special attention is given to the development of the concept of the Parish.
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. A paragraph is dedicated to Carlo Palminteri, procurator of the nuns, who played a prominent role in the construction phase of the coenobium and in relations with the ecclesiastical authorities and some members of the local élite.
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. They were elevated to great prophets of the homeland, as they should have demonstrated the Christian soul of the nation. In this sense, their valorization contributed to consolidating the historical-theological paradigms that supported the Catholic reconquest of society: for example, the Middle Ages and medieval corporations, as affirmations of authentic civil and religious freedom. The rediscovery of Dante and Manzoni appears thus relevant for understanding, on the one hand, the relationship between Catholics and the nation, and on the other hand, the birth of an original Catholic patriotism.
In the last decades, historians started investigating the assistance provided during the Second World War by the Holy See to the persecuted Jews. This work is intended as part of this historiographical trend and focuses on the 3.000 visas granted in June 1939 by the Brazilian government upon the request of the Vatican and devoted to German Jews converted to Catholicism. We analysed the archival fond Pratiche di ebrei conserved in the Archivio Storico Diocesano of Milan, which contains dossiers sent by the archbishop of Milan to the Holy See aimed at helping Milanese Jews, both converted to Catholicism and not, as well as other funds conserved in the Vatican archives. This article highlights the inconsistences in the management of the visas by the Brazilian Government and describes a still little-known aspect of the assistance provided by the Vatican to save persecuted Jews.
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. He had also addressed an instruction to the prelate in 1632 with precise recommendations on how to behave in the Roman court to defend and affirm his jurisdiction in the process of re-Catholicization amidst the territorial control strategies imposed by Rome and Vienne. The Capuchin missionary teaches the art of reaching the goal through the use of human faculties: cognition, persuasion, direction, observation of the intellect and observation of the will of others. From reading the texts – Rule and Instruction – a complementary logic seems to emerge: the first gives theoretical directives, the second suggests practical advice.
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)
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