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Fortuna, dolosa comes al servizio di Dio.

2021 - Leo S. Olschki

P. 281-294

  • In 1968 Carlo Dionisotti reported the discovery of the manuscript works by the humanist Biondo Flavio's son, the secular priest Gabriele Biondo, in his Resoconto di una ricerca interrotta, started – and in fact left unfinished – with the cooperation of Augusto Campana and Dello Cantimori, in dialogue with Giuseppe De Luca. Part of that corpus, that includes writings in prose and poetry, in vernacular and Latin, on themes of devotion and spiritual education, has now been published by Michele Lodone. Those texts are a precious record of the religious ideas – between tradition of Franciscan spiritualism and Savonarola's prophetism – in the period preceding the Reformation. Reading them now looking at Dionisiotti's studies means to reflect on the inheritance of a historiography that has managed to move forward unendo li extremi. [Publisher's text]

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Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa : LVII, 2, 2021