Lux Aeterna: Commemoration of Women with Candles in the Santa Maria Novella Book of Wax in Fifteenth-Century Florence

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 165-172
Author(s):  
Maria DePrano
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Lux Aeterna ◽  
Santa Maria Novella ◽  
Santa Maria

scholarly journals The Dominican Educational and Social Contexts of Riccoldo of Monte Croce’s Pilgrimage Writing

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-78
Author(s):  
Philip Booth
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Santa Maria Novella ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Written Corpus

Riccoldo of Monte Croce (ca. 1243–1320), Dominican friar, missionary, and pilgrim, was an accomplished author, but nature of his written corpus has been disputed by scholarship. For some, he is a noted anti-Islamic polemicist. For others, he is a quasi-tolerant traveler in the East. Yet past attempts to understand Riccoldo’s corpus have taken little notice of the priory of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, where he spent most of his life. This article begins to rectify this omission and signals new ways to understand Riccoldo by drawing on the work of historians, philologists, and codicologists. It assesses Riccoldo’s relationship to Santa Maria Novella’s library and its books. It also traces some of Riccoldo’s social relationships, demonstrating how his positions as a lecturer and preacher and his social connections with individuals like Remigio de’ Girolami influenced his writings. Overall, this study reemphasizes the fact that without understanding social contexts we can never properly understand the intentions of pilgrim-authors.

Art and Sermons: Dominicans and the Jews in Florence’s Santa Maria Novella

2012 ◽  
Vol 92 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 171-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Santa Maria Novella ◽  
Santa Maria

This paper analyzes perceptions of the Jews by the Dominican friars in latemedieval Florence and focuses on the encounter between the Christian and Jewish worlds as manifested in Santa Maria Novella church in the oral and visual traditions. The intention is to examine the representations of Jews in a particular context, that of an Italian urban society in the late fourteenth century, especially in the context of mendicant activity, by studying both preaching and art in that context.The article shows the similarities and differences between the visual and the verbal in relation to the different media discussed, and analyzes the complexity of the Dominican perception of the Jews.

scholarly journals Lettori di Marco Polo a Santa Maria Novella

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Conte
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Marco Polo ◽  
Santa Maria Novella ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Latin Version

The aim of this paper is to propose a new and updated description of a manuscript named Conventi soppressi C.VII.1170, which hands down a Latin version of Marco Polo’s Milion made by Francesco Pipino of Bologna OP. The Conventi soppressi manuscript is a significant witness of the text for its antiquity, the elegance of its making, and the authority of its production. The codicological analysis allows to clarify numerous doubts (or to address several open questions) about the manufacture of the manuscript and the meaning of the iconography. Furthermore, it allows to discover new palaeographic elements that identify a rewriting intervention. Therefore, the set of features related to the making of the manuscript suggests an overview about the social and historical context of its production, where the consideration of a book as an object is related to its practical function.

scholarly journals Nicholas Trevet : le théologien anglais qui parlait à l’oreille des Italiens

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Blaise Dufal
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Italian Peninsula ◽  
Classic Literature ◽  
Santa Maria Novella ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Bear Witness

The commentaries composed by the English theologian Nicholas Trevet at the beginning of the fourteenth century not only bear witness to his connections with Santa Maria Novella. They also testify to the importance of his contribution to the transfer of knowledge about Antiquity and the rebirth of antiquarianism in the Italian peninsula. This essay argues that Trevet’s Scholastic commentaries, presented as an expositio, met the need that Italian intellectuals had of a fuller understanding of classic literature, pagan mythology and Roman history.

scholarly journals L’usura tra Santa Croce e Santa Maria Novella:

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-205
Author(s):  
Roberto Lambertini
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Santa Croce ◽  
Santa Maria Novella ◽  
Santa Maria

Between 1290 and 1310, two Mendicant friars active in Florence dealt with the controversial issue of usury: the Franciscan lector Peter of Trabibus, who until now has been studied primarily for his relationship to Olivi’s teaching, and the Dominican Remigio de’ Girolami. In the mid-nineties of the thirteenth century, in the context of his quodlibetal questions, Peter of Trabibus discusses the social role of merchants and he broaches the question of the restitution of usurious gains. Some years later, Remigio also deals with similar issues in his quodlibetal questions and writes a treatise that bears the title De peccato usurae.

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