Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce (1425-1495): life, works, and fame of a Renaissance preacher
Franciscan historiography concerning a controversial friar -- The influence of defaming comments and the waning of a style of preaching -- Youth and family (1425-c.1446) -- First successful preaching in Umbria (c.1446-1448) -- Itinerant preaching in central and southern Italy (1448-1450) -- Preachin...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2022]
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | The medieval Franciscans
volume 19 |
| Further subjects: | B
Catholic Church
Clergy Biography
B Sermons, Medieval (Italy) History and criticism B Franciscans (Italy) Biography B Caracciolo, Roberto (1425-1495) B Italy Church history B Catholic Church (Italy) History To 1500 B Preaching (Italy) History Middle Ages, 600-1500 |
| Summary: | Franciscan historiography concerning a controversial friar -- The influence of defaming comments and the waning of a style of preaching -- Youth and family (1425-c.1446) -- First successful preaching in Umbria (c.1446-1448) -- Itinerant preaching in central and southern Italy (1448-1450) -- Preaching in Padua (1450-1451) -- Brescia, Milan, and Forli̇ (1451) -- Roberto's break from the observant family (1452-1453) -- Renewed attacks against the observant reform (1453-1455) -- Preaching the crusade in Rome (1455-1457) -- Preaching in Milan (1457-1458) -- Florence and Rome (1459-1461) -- Preaching the crusade in Northern Italy (1463) -- Rome, Bologna, Ferrara, Naples and Genoa (1464-1467) -- The Devil's activity in the world (1467-1470) -- Preacher in Naples and ecclesiastical career in Rome (1470-1480) -- From the siege of Otranto to the last years in Lecce (1480-1495) -- Preaching between action and intellectual debate -- Preaching, writing, and printing sermons in fifteenth-century Italy -- The editorial history of Roberto's sermon collections -- Outlines of the manuscript diffusion of Roberto's sermons -- The readers of Roberto's sermon collections -- The fame of the celebrated preacher. "In the second half of the fifteenth century, Roberto Caracciolo's preaching touched the most important cities of Italy, and met with wide and resounding success. His sermons were read and diffused throughout Italy and Europe, propelled by the emergence of the printing press industry. This book provides a new and comprehensive study of his life, preaching and writing, replacing outdated resources and adding new and hitherto unknown data. It offers a reference work on a relevant social, intellectual and religious actor of Renaissance Italy and a reading of those times through the life and works of a celebrated preacher"-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichis und Index |
| ISBN: | 900449930X |