Franciscana

Bollettino della Società internazionale di studi francescani

Direttore scientifico Grado G. Merlo

XI - 2010

ABSTRACTS

M. P. Alberzoni, (Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Milano), « Intra in gaudium Domini, Domini tui videlicet, Praedicatorum Ordinis ». Diana d’Andalò e Chiara d’Assisi: da sorores a moniales, pp. 1-42

SUMMARY: « Intra in gaudium Domini, Domini tui videlicet, Praedicatorum Ordinis ». Diana d’Andalò and Clare of Assisi: from sisters to nuns –The regulation of the women’s religious life at the beginning of the 13th century was at the center of numerous experiments promoted by the papal curia in particular. With the Roman monastery of San Sisto and its regulation, Innocent III attempted to give a new institutional physiognomy to female monasticism. Cardinal Hugolino (Hugo) of Ostia who continued on  this path, had the fortuitous insight of closely linking the new female monasteries promoted by the Apostolic See to the Mendicant Orders marked with the charisms of their founders Dominic and Francis. The examination of the letters addressed by Jordan of Saxony, the first successor of Dominic in the office of Master General of the Preachers, to Diana d’Andalò and to her community of S. Agnese at Bologna makes it possible to notice the points of comparison between its development and that of its contemporary, the Order of San Damiano. Clare of Assisi and Diana d’Andalò desired to closely follow the charism of their own founder and gave birth to two different communities, but they also had to measure up to the directions of Gregory IX.

F. Sedda, (Università La Sapienza, Roma), La Legenda ad usum chori e il codice assisano 338, pp. 28-83

SUMMARY: The Legend for the use in the choir and the Assisi manuscript 338 – The article deals with the Legenda ad usum chori, the most ancient choral legend on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi. The scant attention devoted to this source, that left an indelible imprint in the memory of the early generations of the friars Minor, has induced the author to propose a detailed analysis of the Legenda ad usum chori through an investigation of the context, the literary genre, the dating, the edition and the manuscript witnesses, particularly the ms. Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale (Sacro Convento), 338. A new study regarding its author will be published soon.

C. M. MARTÍNEZ RUIZ, (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba), Tres cuestiones acerca del sobrante (1230-1250), pp. 85-174

SUMMARY: Three questions regarding the superfluous property (1230-1250) – Edition and presentation of three questions regarding the superfluous property (de superfluo), composed during the first half of the thirteenth century by John of la Rochelle (falsely attributed to Bonaventure), Guerric of Saint-Quentin and an Anonymous. Keywords: property, natural law, administration.

M. ESPOSITI, (Università La Sapienza, Roma), Dalla sequela Christi alla Christo conformitas: Il Liber de laudibus beati Francisci di Bernardo da Bessa, pp. 175-192

SUMMARY: From sequela Christi to Christo conformitas. The Liber de laudibus beati Francisci of Bernardo of Bessa – The lexical research completed in the Liber de laudibus (1279-1288), shows just two of the three lemmata, object of this study. The author seems to have more interests for the terms about sequela Christi and especially about the sequela Francisci, often proposed as equivalents. The lexicon of the imitatio Christi, instead, seems to be more a lexical outliving than a theme really developed in the source. On the opposite the subject of the Christo conformitas, althought lexically absent in the source, shows to be particulary present as theme in the Liber de laudibus. The author of this work, shows a Francis very similar to a new Christ. Francis, in fact, has four biographers as Christ four Evangelists, twelve companions as Christ twelve Apostles. On the way opened by Liber de laudibus will follow other authors, like the anonymous writer of the Actus reatini at the beginning of XIV sec.

S. Brufani, (Università degli Studi, Perugia), Gli Actus beati Francisci e i Fioretti: due storie di un testo senza storia, pp. 193-214

SUMMARY: The Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius and the Fioretti: two histories of a work without history – The Actus are now recognized as the source of the Fioretti. The study focuses on the different historical context in which the Actus have been written and translated into the vernacular as Fioretti. Diversity of language, of readers, of manuscript tradition and of purpose characterizes the two works.

R. Biondi, (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose, L'Aquila), « Vi sono certi altri scritti d’oscurissima interpretatione ». Gli inventari dei fratres strictioris Observantiae durante l’inchiesta della Congregazione dell’Indice, pp. 215-334

SUMMARY: « Vi sono certi altri scritti d’oscurissima interpretatione ». Gli inventari dei fratres strictioris Observantiae durante l’inchiesta della Congregazione dell’Indice – Towards the end of the XVI century, the so-called Strictoris Observantiae detached progressively from the Observance and consolidated on an institutional level. In 1600 this new branch of the Franciscan Order was the subject of an inquiry led by the Congregation of the Index investigating on the presence of forbidden books in the libraries of Italian Franciscan monasteries. The results of the inquiry were collected in the Vaticano Latino 11268, a manuscript stored in the Vatican Apostolic Library. The data deducible from the codex reveal the great cultural diversity of a branch of the seventeenth-century Franciscanism which was just in those years making its way through the Italian religious scene. The friars promptly replied to the order of the Congregation by sending the book to Rome. Interesting data emerge from the analysis of the codex manuscript on how they responded to the injunctions set by the Congregation, on the use they made of the book and on how extensive their knowledge of the writings stored in their libraries was.