{"title":"Literary and Visual Forms of a Domestic Devotion: The Rosary in Renaissance Italy","authors":"E. Ardissino","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_016","url":null,"abstract":"The Rosary is one of the most widely practiced forms of domestic devotion in modern Italy. Literature and cinema document the deep penetration of this form of prayer into the culture and lives of Catholic Italians. The Rosary, how-ever, is not rooted in the ancient past, as some other prayers are; the practice dates to the late fifteenth century, and became widely diffused in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The period of the spread of Rosary was one Italy characterised by prominence places cultures, defining intellectual professions and political theories of of laity in intellectual and social life, new religious doctrines, formation European confessionalism. some char-acterized the early modern played a role in the development and spread of the devotional practice under consideration. I would particularly underline the importance of printing, the role of the laity, the Reformation, and open confrontation between different peoples, religions and cultures (with the con-sequence that many commercial routes and forms of labour and production were altered dramatically), as fundamental elements that contributed to the spread of the Rosary.","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127376308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Domestic Religion and Connected Spaces: Isabella della Rovere, Princess of Bisignano (1552–1619)","authors":"Elisa Novi Chavarria","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122619346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religious Subjects on Sixteenth-Century Deruta Piatti da Pompa","authors":"M. Brody","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114295926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spaces for Domestic Devotion in the Noble Residences of Palermo in the Age of Catholic Reform","authors":"Valeria Viola","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_005","url":null,"abstract":"In the mid-eighteenth century, Francesco Maria Emanuele Gaetani, Marquis of Villabianca (1720–1802), acknowledged that in Palermo the prestige and distinction of a palace had depended on the presence of ‘crenellations, turrets, columns, courtyards and private churches’.1 He was referring to the Royal Palace which the Normans began constructing in 1132, and to medieval fortified houses, whose private chapels were notable for their sizable dimensions.2 The Marquis, despite being a valuable source of information on the period, is known to have been a conservative voice from the upper echelons of society, perpetually worried by the evolving world around him. He complained that the custom of erecting great private oratories was vanishing, because of the new, and in his words ‘mal consigliata’ (erroneous) custom of allowing domestic chapels inside rooms.3 His words, however, prove that devotional spaces – albeit reduced in size – were still considered necessary to complete a noble home in Palermo. Pending the conclusion of research that is still underway, this paper provides an overview of chapels and oratories in the noble residences of Palermo in the post-Tridentine age. It asserts that the pervasive and enduring role of religion was reflected in the architecture of private devotional spaces.4 This paper sheds light on the continuous re-negotiation of the boundaries between","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132372505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating Domestic Sacred Space: Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy","authors":"S. Corbellini","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122643463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Domestic Prayers and Miracles in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Savonarola and His Cult","authors":"S. Dall’Aglio","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123918012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Private and Public Devotion in Late Renaissance Italy: The Role of Church Censorship","authors":"Giorgio Caravale","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_018","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the differences in their respective traditions, from the thirteenth century onwards, Franciscan and then Dominican spirituality placed the notion of inward prayer at the heart of their religious discourses. Following St Francis, both St Clare and St Anthony located ‘the foundation of contemplative life in the spirit of prayer’, while St Bonaventure noted that ‘perfect prayer’ was a fundamental stage in the mystical ascent towards God.1 In the fourteenth century, the Dominicans – especially Domenico Cavalca – developed Thomas Aquinas’ concept of the spirit, understanding mental prayer as the essence of the contemplative practice of mystical asceticism. Later, Catherine of Siena pronounced that humble, continuous, faithful and disinterested prayer was the instrument through which the soul acquires all virtue’,2 asserting the superiority of mental prayer over spoken prayer. The rich medieval tradition of mental prayer survived throughout the fifteenth century in the thought of great spiritual authorities, such as St Antonino and Ludovico Barbo, until the turn of the sixteenth century when it found its most efficacious expression in the thought of Savonarola.3 Savonarola’s defence of mental prayer not only acknowledges the superiority of mental prayer over spoken prayer, but explicitly criticises devotion that is outwardly expressed.4 According to Savonarola, and many other critics of the Roman Curia, public devotion encouraged mechanical recitation over profound spiritual reflection. Spoken prayer, and public ceremonies more generally, should instead recover their original functions as stimuli and","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121231041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the ‘Case’ of the Agnus Dei in Sixteenth-Century Italian Homes","authors":"I. Cooper","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_011","url":null,"abstract":"On 26 July 1582, Giulia Diamante signed a deposition against her Spanish husband Francisco da Cordoba in front of the Vicar of the Neapolitan Archbishop, who acted on behalf of the Roman Inquisition.1 Giulia started her statement by recounting episodes of her unhappy married life: Francisco, who was extremely poor, had only married her for her large dowry and had tried to kill her many times over the years. However, this was not what brought Giulia to the Inquisition tribunal. Rather, she was spurred to denounce her husband on account of a borsetta di fattocchierie, ‘a pouch full of magical items’, that Francisco had been carrying around his neck and under his shirt for about three months. Giulia knew what the pouch contained because the previous Friday, while Francisco was asleep, she had stolen it to look at its contents. Shocked by what she saw, Giulia took it to the Inquisitor’s vicar who, without further ado, initiated the trial against Francisco. Witnesses were called to testify against him; their testimonies, which repeated the same story, signalled the object’s inexplicable mysterious charge. As one witness stated:","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114153666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Singing on the Street and in the Home in Times of Pestilence: Lessons from the 1576–78 Plague of Milan","authors":"Remi Chiu","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125885673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Material Prayers and Maternity in Early Modern Italy: Signed, Sealed, Delivered","authors":"K. Tycz","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_012","url":null,"abstract":"Novella 217 of Franco Sacchetti’s Il Trecentonovelle begins with a young married woman, seven months pregnant, who had undergone much pain and frustration to have her previous children. Afraid for her own well-being, as well as that of her unborn child during the pregnancy and birth, she seeks out ‘legends of Saint Margaret, medicines, brevi, and every other thing’.2 In other words, all the usual items available to a pregnant woman to allay her fears and pain. How might the resources used by the young woman in Sacchetti’s story illuminate actual practices and objects in early modern Italy, thus allowing us to better understand women’s lives?","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116280418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}