Bishop-Poets in the Shadow of the Council of Trent: Antonio Sebastiani Minturno and the Poemata Tridentina
The atmosphere of the Council of Trent was permeated by literature. Italian bishops at the time of Reformation were acquainted with the most significant humanistic literary culture of the sixteenth century. Antonio Sebastiano Minturno (1500-1574), an Italian bishop who actively attended the last pha...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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The journal of religious history, literature and culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 26-50 |
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Minturno, Antonio Sebastiano 1500-1574, Poemata Tridentina
/ Tridentinum (1545-1563 : Trient)
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| IxTheo Classification: | CE Christian art CG Christianity and Politics KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages |
| Further subjects: | B
Council of Trent
B Italian Literature B Catholic Bishops B ANTONIO SEBASTIANO MINTURNO B RENAISSANCE POETRY |
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| Summary: | The atmosphere of the Council of Trent was permeated by literature. Italian bishops at the time of Reformation were acquainted with the most significant humanistic literary culture of the sixteenth century. Antonio Sebastiano Minturno (1500-1574), an Italian bishop who actively attended the last phases of the Council, was author of two treatises on poetics, secular and sacred poems in vernacular (1559, 1561) and Latin poems. The importance of literature in his life can be seen in the network of his intellectual and political relations as well as in the use of poetry and literature in order to assert spiritual values and to represent the main events of his times. In particular, the Poemata Tridentina (1564), a collection of poems about the Council and its protagonists, can be read as a document of his spiritual life and of the catholic perception of the Council itself, since they are one of the rare literary works which explicitly deal with the Council of Trent as main theme. A different version of the paper was presented at the International Conference |
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| ISSN: | 2057-4525 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religious history, literature and culture
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