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L’altare di Maria Santissima del Lume nella chiesa delle Anime Sante a Valletta.
2015
Il contributo si occupa di ricostruire, attraversi documenti finora mai pubblicati, le vicende realizzative relative all'inedito altare maggiore della chiesa delle Anime Sante a Valletta (Malta), opera dei maestri marmorari messinesi Antonino e Francesco Amato e aiuti degli anni 1743-1747. The essay, through documents never before published, speaks of the events related to the construction of the main altar of the church of the Holy Souls in Valletta (Malta). It is a work of the marble workers Antonino and Francesco Amato and aid from Messina made in the years 1743-1747.
Stratificazioni storiche del simbolismo rituale della Settimana Santa in Sicilia
2017
I temi della continuità culturale, della diffusione e della “sopravvivenza” del simbolismo rituale sono stati al centro del dibattito antropologico e storico-religioso. Ritornano oggi d’attualità in relazione alla questione della patrimonializzazione dei beni immateriali, delle feste religiose “tradizionali” come, appunto, la Settimana Santa. Possiamo e dobbiamo ritorna-re a chiederci: le testimonianze materiali e immateriali del passato, anche il più remoto, posso-no aiutarci a comprendere ciò che osserviamo declinarsi negli attuali contesti festivi e, di con-verso, le odierne o appena trascorse espressioni del folklore possono contribuire a chiarire il senso di storie e di riti assai più …
Cesaropapismo y competencia jurisdiccional. Patronato regio contra vicarios apostólicos en Sicilia (siglos XVI-XVII)
2023
The several spiritual and ecclesiastical powers held by the Crown in the Kingdom of Sicily during the early modern age was very often translated into jurisdictional competences precisely among the ecclesiastical courts: each of them tried, indeed, to extend his own prerogatives over forists and crimes in harm of the others, putting its "falcem in alienam messem". The defendants themselves, often clerics, were well aware of this jurisdictional competition and tried, often successfully, to take advantage of it, sometimes involving Roman Congregations and Courts. Other times it was the same Holy See to tackle the Sicilian caesaropapism head on, sending commissars and apostolic vicars in quarre…
Un indeclinable deseo de fiesta: expresiones de la religiosidad popular en Sicilia en tiempo de pandemia
2022
Sicily is a land of deep religious traditions linked to popular Catholicism. In the winter of 2020, the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic prompted the Italian government to adopt "Urgent measures for the containment and management of the epidemiological emergency due to COVID-19", to control the spread of the plague. The measures included, among other things, the prohibition of meetings, i.e. static or itinerant aggregation of groups of people gathered for any reason, and of demonstrations and events, and consequently the cessation of all public religious celebrations. This has caused that two important religious feasts are not officially celebrated: the feast of San Giuseppe and the rites of…
Una tabla inédita de Fernando Yáñez y nueva luz sobre su estancia en Almedina (1518-1525)
2020
The contribution presents a new acquisition for the catalog of Fernando Yáñez, a Holy Family dating back to 1523, shedding new light on the artist?s production in the third decade of the sixteenth century during his return to Almedina, his birthplace, in a time frame that divides the works for Valencia, like the retablo mayor for the city?s cathedral, from his altarpieces for Cuenca.
Getting by the resort of the pilgrims
2014
Shaping women's agency through temporality in "The life and activity of the holy and blessed teacher Syncletica"
2020
The present article attempts to discuss the relationship between two female characters, Thecla and Syncletica, against the wider theoretical background of temporality as it was perceived and construed through literary texts. Syncletica is portrayed as a ‘disciple’ of Thecla. However, while the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla appear to be pervaded with an eschatological expectation, the Life of Saint Syncletica shows signs of a different temporality. The detailed description of the whole life of Syncletica, with an emphasis on the course of illness, reveals a temporality more focused on the stages of life. Building on this evidence, I aim to identify a set of key features that…
Iconofilia ed iconoclastia: Teodoro Abū Qurrah e la diatriba sull’immagine tra Cristianesimo d’Oriente ed Islām
2021
The main theme of this intervention is the role played by Syrian and PalestinianChristians in collecting and preserving the Greek philosophical thought and in guaranteeing its trasmission by being the warrantors of Greek and Patristic culture in the following centuries. During the period following the Islamic expansion, these started to translate in arabic this cultural heritage and it is thanks to this translating masterpiece from Greek to Syrian or from Greek to Arabic that the new comers found the first Arabic translations of the greatest Greek philosophers. The author whose thought will be inspected lived under the caliphates of Hārūn al-Rašīd (766–809) and al-Ma ʾmūn (786–833). Teodoro…
"Antiphonarium ecclesiae Parochialis Oppoliensis" Carla Juliusa Adolpha Hoffmanna (1801–1843)
2022
This article describes Antiphonarium ecclesiae Parochialis Oppoliensis – Carl Julius Adolph Hoffmann’s antiphonary prepared for the needs of parish musical and liturgical life. The collection is presented against the background of all the activities of this famous Opole music director. From the very beginning of his work in Opole he was committed to raising the local music culture – first in the parish, in the field of religious music, and then also in the whole city, enlivening its concert life. As a result he also improved the level of education and musical awareness of the city’s inhabitants.
Константин Великий и св. Елена на фресках Яна Кубена в Воздвиженском костеле в Бжеге
2020
The paper introduces the splendid representations of Emperor Constantine the Great and Saint Helena in Jan Kuben’s frescos in the church under invocation of the Triumph of the Cross in Brzeg. They testify strongly of the incessant presence of the creative reflection over the Christian ancient times in the area of Opole Silesia in the period of the Catholic reform in the 18th century. Kuben’s trompe-l’oeil constitutes a wonderful combination of deeply experienced Catholic spirituality with the genius of the artist – a visionary.