Il Beneficio di Cristo con le Versioni del Secolo XVI, Documenti e Testimonianze (Corpus Reformatorum Italicorum) [The Benefite that Christians receye by Iesus Christ Crucified]

Benedetto da Mantova; Salvatore Caponetto ed

Edité par Newberry Library / G. C. Sansoni, 1972

A propos de cet article

554pp. Crown 8vo, sewn binding in burgundy cloth. Color plates in facsimile of the original title pages. Critical text of the Italian original and French, English, and Croatian translations with other documents representing the reception of this key text of the Italian Reformation and the 'Sprirituali' movement in Benedictine order.' 'BENEFICIO DI CRISTO is the most famous work associated with sixteenth-century reform thought in Italy. Despite extensive scholarly literature devoted to it, no agree-ment about the nature of its theology has been reached. Pub-lished anonymously in Venice in I543 as Trattato utilissimo del beneficio di Giesu Christo crocifisso verso i christiani, the small book became immediately popular, although the statement of a contemporary, Pier Paolo Vergerio, that in six years forty thousand copies were sold is surely exaggerated. An elusive Benedictine monk, Benedetto da Mantova, is generally thought to have been its author, while the humanist and poet Marcantonio Flaminio is known to have revised and polished the text. The Dominican Ambrogio Catarino Politi's attack on the work as unorthodox appeared in 1544, followed by its prohibition by the Inquisition five years later. While translations into several languages assured it readers in other countries, in Italy the mere possession of the Be-neficio came to be taken as evidence of the owner's hetero-doxy. It was suppressed so successfully that no Italian copy came to light until the nineteenth century, when one was discovered in the library of Saint John's College, Cambridge. Since then, the work has taken its preeminent place in six-teenth-century Italian religious history.' (Elizabeth Gleason, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Il Beneficio di Cristo con le Versioni del Secolo XVI, Documenti e Testimonianze (Corpus Reformatorum Italicorum) [The Benefite that Christians receye by Iesus Christ Crucified]
• Éditeur: Newberry Library / G. C. Sansoni
• Date de parution: 1972
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: VERY GOOD
• Poids: 55 onces
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