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An Amphibious Identity: Apollonio Bianchi between Observance and Humanism

Chapter of: Observant Reforms and Cultural Production in Europe: Learning, Liturgy and Spiritual Practice

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TitleAn Amphibious Identity: Apollonio Bianchi between Observance and Humanism
ContributorPietro Delcorno(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/XFRB6134_CH03
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2023-08-09
Long abstractThis chapter discusses the homiletic activities and the oratorical style of the Franciscan Observant friar Apollonio Bianchi (d. 1450). The focus on this as yet understudied preacher and author sheds light on the Franciscan Observance in crucial years of its development and emancipation within the wider Franciscan order, and also shows how such a preacher embraced a consciously hybrid rhetorical persona, a phenomenon that help to understand the complex relationship between Observance and Humanism in fifteenth-century Italy.
Keywords
  • Humanism
  • Preaching
  • Rhetoric
  • Poverty
  • Franciscan Observance
Contributors

Pietro Delcorno

(author)
Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Civiltà at Università di Bologna
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1556-3215

Pietro Delcorno studied theology and medieval history in Bologna and Nijmegen, and completed his PhD on late medieval exegesis and preaching in 2016 at Radboud University. Since 2021, he works as senior assistant professor at the University of Bologna and is visiting researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is leading the project ‘Lenten Sermon Bestsellers: Shaping Society through Religious Communication in Late Medieval Europe (1470-1520)’, founded by a Veni Grant of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). His main research interests include medieval and early modern preaching, religious drama, and late medieval social history. His academic publications in the field include two monographs: <i>Lazzaro e il ricco epulone: Metamorfosi di una parabola fra Quattro e Cinquecento</i> (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2014) and <i>In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (1200-1550)</i> (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2018), as well as many articles on the Observant preachers, Italian confraternities, and Monti di Pietà.