La superstizione di re Carlo Alberto: Il caso della visionaria Carlotta Cerino
"His religion sometimes degenerated into true superstition". These are the words - referring to Carlo Alberto, king od Sardinia - that Luigi Cibrario wrote in 1866 to Vittorio Emanuele II after reading the secret diary of Cesare Trabucco of Castagnetto, former secretary of the "magnan...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | Italian |
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Morcelliana
[2019]
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Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2019, Volume: 85, Issue: 2, Pages: 662-677 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cerino, Carlotta 179X-1837
/ Clotilde, Sardinien, Königin 1759-1802
/ Vision
/ Karl Albert, Sardinien, König 1798-1849
/ Religious policy
/ Jesuits
/ Intrigue
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IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CG Christianity and Politics KBJ Italy |
Further subjects: | B
diario segreto
B Holy Spirit B Superstition B Trial B Spirito Santo B Venerabile Clotilde di Savoia B Scandals B secret diary B Court B Processo B Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1697-1745 B Corte B Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, 1798-1849 B Venerable Clotilde of Savoy B Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 1820-1878 |
Summary: | "His religion sometimes degenerated into true superstition". These are the words - referring to Carlo Alberto, king od Sardinia - that Luigi Cibrario wrote in 1866 to Vittorio Emanuele II after reading the secret diary of Cesare Trabucco of Castagnetto, former secretary of the "magnanimous and martyr" king. The reference was specific: in 1835 a woman named Carlotta Cerino, a cook, claimed to have visions of the venerable Clotilde, queen of Sardinia, wife of Carlo Emanuele IV. This was a particularly delicate political moment for the government, struggling with infightings, and Carlo Alberto was troubled by the woman. The "progressives" unmasked the machinations of the ventriloquist cook, introduced into the royal palace by the "supporters of the Jesuits" in order to confuse the sovereign and lead him to abandon the reforms. The "seances" did not last long; definitively unmasked by a theologian, the woman was arrested and locked up in the Pallanza prison, where she died in a short time. But the case had a certain resonance and there were testimonies pros and cons the visionary. The essay intends to retrace the story on the ground of published and unpublished documents, in order to propose a cross-section of politics and religion in the tormented initial years of the reign of Carlo Alberto. |
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ISSN: | 2611-8742 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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