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Inuentiones y translationes de S. Mercurio
2019
Inuentiones and translationes of the relics are part of the hagiographic dossier of a saint and provide interesting information about his cult over the centuries. For S. Mercurius of Caesarea the original texts in Greek have been lost, but we have two collections miracles in Coptic that narrate the inuentio and translatio of his relics and there is also a medieval tradition about his translatio to Benevento (Italy). From all these texts is deduced a healing cult of S. Mercurius based on the usual topics.
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» …
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 …
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.
Il motivo della “conversione” nel «Gallicanus» di Rosvita di Gandersheim
2017
This paper focuses on the subject of conversion in Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim’s dramatic plays (or «dramatic dialogues») and, chiefly, in the first of them, the Gallicanus. The play is divided in two parts and is entirely founded on hagiograhical sources, regarding some episodes about the conversion of Gallican, emperor Constantine’s commander-in-chief (BHL 3236: Conversio Gallicani principis militiae), and the martyrdom of primicerii John and Paul (BHL 3242: Passio martyrum Iohannis et Pauli). Through a strict analysis of Hrotsvitha’s play’s matter, can be highlighted the different typologies of the conversion’s theme, which involves a spiritual renovation, and the treatment of dramatic plo…
«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…
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…
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…
Domestic violence against women as a reason to sanctification in Byzantini hagiography
2018
Recensione a: Vita et obitus beate Arthellays uirginis. Testo, traduzione, commento, Campolattaro (BN), Centro Culturale per lo Studio della Civiltà …
2020
Recens. a Riccardo Valli, Vita et obitus beate Arthellays uirginis. Testo, traduzione, commento, Campolattaro (BN), Centro Culturale per lo Studio della Civiltà Contadina nel Sannio, 2019. Il volume presenta l'edizione critica, con traduzione italiana a commento, della Vita et obitus beate Arthellays uirginis, una scrittura agiografica di ambiente beneventano redatta, verosimilmente, fra il IX e il X secolo. Review to Riccardo Valli, Vita et obitus beate Arthellays uirginis. Text, translation, commentary, Campolattaro (BN), Cultural Center for the Study of Peasant Civilization in Sannio, 2019. The volume presents the critical edition, with an Italian translation as commentary, of Vita et ob…