Inquietudini Spirituali Di Una Nobildonna Del Cinquecento: Caterina Cybo = Spiritual Concerns of a Noble of the 16th Century : Caterina Cybo
The essay analyses the spiritual experience of Caterina Cybo (1501-1557) in Cosimo de' Medici's Florence. The Duchess of Camerino was an emblematic figure of the religious and political crisis of sixteenth-century Italy. By birth bound by the Medici and the papacy, she was an educated, pow...
| Subtitles: | Spiritual Concerns of a Noble of the 16th Century |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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Ed. Morcelliana
[2020]
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| In: |
Rivista di storia del cristianesimo
Year: 2020, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 205-221 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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B Spirituality B Cosimian Age B Ordine dei cappuccini B feminine mysticism B misticismo femminile B Waldesianism B Nobility (Social class) B Florence B Controriforma B spiritualismo B valdesianesimo B Spiritualism B Riforma protestante italiana B Capuchin Order B Counter-Reformation B Bernardino Ochino B Firenze B Dukes (Nobility) B età cosimiana B Italian Protestant Reformation B Duchesses (Nobility) |
| Summary: | The essay analyses the spiritual experience of Caterina Cybo (1501-1557) in Cosimo de' Medici's Florence. The Duchess of Camerino was an emblematic figure of the religious and political crisis of sixteenth-century Italy. By birth bound by the Medici and the papacy, she was an educated, powerful woman who devoted herself to a restless religious research, also oriented towards heterodoxy and then, in the changed Italian climate, locked up in the private sphere. This interweaving of instances was not uncommon in noblewomen until the advent of the Counter-Reformation. Like her friend Vittoria Colonna, Caterina Cybo sought different answers to her spiritual anxieties. The noblewoman was a disciple of the Florentine mystic Domenica Narducci da Paradiso, she attended the Waldensian circle of Pietro Carnesecchi, but above all she shared the increasingly unorthodox positions of the Capuchin General Bernardino Ochino, after having favoured the creation of the Order. Cybo thus became Ochino's main interlocutor in his Dialogi sette (composed between 1532 and 1539) and was active in the diffusion of his ideas also in the public sphere. From the middle of the century, instead, she cultivated her own religiosity in private circles. The religious experience of Caterina Cybo, alien to rigid doctrinal categories, is placed in an exploratory dimension in the fluid context of the Florentine situation during the government of Duke Cosimo. This new perspective was achieved through the use of unpublished sources and a different interpretation of her profile, in keeping with recent historiographical tendencies on the Italian Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Rivista di storia del cristianesimo
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