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La Religion triomphante, militante et martyre. Piété et valeurs guerrières dans les représentations de l’ordre de Malte
2018
The Order of St. John always paid special attention to the publications documenting its military activities, in order to justify both its mission in defence of the faith and its requests to Christian princes for human and material resources. This editorial investment was particularly strong after the dramatic sieges of Rhodes (1480, 1522) and Malta (1565) by the Ottomans. In 1619, just a few years after the Order’s new landing in Malta, "Il glorioso trionfo della sacrosanta religion militare de’ nobili, valorosi e invitti cavalieri di S. Giovanni Gierosolimitano" was published in Italian and Spanish. This article analyses the narrative strategies used in this text within the context of coev…
«Humanae ac divinae litterae». Gli scritti di cultura medievale e umanistica di Mauro Donnini
2016
Questo intervento trae spunto dalla pubblicazione di un volume di Mauro Donnini («Humanae ac divinae litterae». Scritti di cultura medievale e umanistica, Spoleto [PG], Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo [CISAM], 2013), nel quale lo studioso presenta 46 dei suoi studi sulla cultura e la letteratura medievale e umanistica, scritti fra il 1979 e il 2012. I principali temi affrontati sono l’edizione critica di testi mediolatini e umanistici; problemi letterari, di lingua e stile; le versificazioni; il riuso delle "auctoritates" classiche; la narratologia e le tecniche di analisi del racconto. This paper takes remark by the publication of «Humanae ac divinae litterae». Scritti di cultu…
Desiderio, crudeltà e conversione nell’«Agnes» di Rosvita di Gandersheim
2015
In her last hagiographical poem, «Agnes», Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (935-973) elaborates in 459 rhymed hexameters a story already told in many hagiographical an hymnological texts, the story of young roman virgin Agnes (it was told by pope Damasus, Prudentius, Ambrosius, Beda, and the anonymous «Passio Agnetis»). The paper presents and analizes Hrotsvit’s «Agnes» in his literary, historical, hagiographical, religious components and particularly insists on the themes of “desire”, “cruelty”, “conversion” and “martyrdom” which occur in it.
La figura di Zosima, padre "autorevole", nella leggenda di Maria Egiziaca
2014
The legend of saint Maria Aegyptiaca knew a large diffusion in hagiographical tradition, between East and West, from VI-VII century to the end of the Middle Ages. Together with Maria, father Zosima is the most important figure of the legend (a true “deuteragonist” of the narrative plot). He meets the heremitic woman in the wilderness of Palaestina and has a particular relation with her, founded on deference and devotion, till the death and the engraving of the old Maria. The type of father Zosima, in the various versions of the story, obtains different cures by the poets and the authors. By some select specimens (essentially taked from Hildebertus of Lavardin’s «Vita beate Marie Egiptiace» …
Recens. a Fr. Sivo, Il carme su san Michele Arcangelo di Flodoardo di Reims. Introduzione, testo critico e commento, Campobasso-Foggia, Il Castello, …
2019
Recens. al vol. di Francesca Sivo, Il carme su san Michele Arcangelo di Flodoardo di Reims. Introduzione, testo critico e commento, pubblicato a Campobasso-Foggia nel 2018 dalle edizioni Il Castello.
Cristiani e Musulmani nella Sicilia islamica. La testimonianza delle fonti letterarie italogreche
2014
From the Valencian anonymous life of St. Onophrius at the beginning of the sixteenth century to the recreation of Onofre Salt (Barcelona, 1620)
2017
La devoció en terres de parla catalana a l'anacoreta sant Onofre es troba bastant difosa i compta amb nombrosos testimonis. Entre els literaris, en destaquen dos. Un, en català, publicat a principis del segle XVI, a València —anònim i amb clares evidències de ser un treball que recull textos elaborats en estadis anteriors—, i l'altre publicat a Barcelona —malgrat que obra del valencià Onofre Salt—, del 1620, i en castellà. Ens proposem veure les diferències entre l'un i l'altre i, encara, els punts en comú de dos textos devocionals hagiogràfics que es troben als extrems de la cruïlla de l'edat moderna: de l'edat mitjana al Renaixement, el primer, i ja al barroc, el segon.
Domestic violence against women as a reason to sanctification in Byzantini hagiography
2018
Il convertito che opera conversioni: san Dionigi nel «Dionysius» di Rosvita di Gandersheim
2016
In her seventh hagiographical poem, «Dionysius» (or «Passio sancti Dionysii egregii martyris»), Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (935-973) elaborates in 266 rhymed hexameters a story already told in the «Vita sancti Dionysii» of Hilduinus, abbot of Saint-Denis, composed about 835 by order of the emperor Louis the Pious, to whom he is devoted. Hrotsvit, in this work, presents the figure of Dionysius as a convert by the apostle Paulus, who consecrates his new Christian life to the conversion of the Pagans, until his martyrdom (which is under the topic of “cephalologie”, a recurring theme in classical and medieval lore). The poem has a big interest, both historical and literary. The paper presents and …
When the Past Makes Saints: The Knights of Malta from Sinners to Martyrs in "Il glorioso trionfo della sacrosanta religion militare di S. Giovanni Gi…
2022
After the fall of Rhodes (1522), the Order of St. John needed to recover its reputation as militia Christi and to redraft its chivalrous ideals within the context of the Catholic Renewal. However, this so-called Religion met this challenge partially and late, although it represented its glorious past as a gallery of saints and martyrs, even if they were not always officially recognised by the Church. This past, since its origin in the Holy Land, casted a shadow of sanctity into the present, confirming this Religion as being semper eadem. Such a representation is found in the book Il glorioso trionfo della sacrosanta religion militare di S. Giovanni Gierosolimitano, published in 1619 in Ital…