Le bio-agiografie di Bernardino da Siena e lagiografia degli Ordini mendicanti nel 400. A partire da un volume recente (583-608)

Description

On the basis of a current Italian editorial project which publishes the 15th-century lives of Bernadine of Siena, the article offers a series of reflections on the “hagiographical case” of Saint Bernardine. It takes into account the chronology, different types and purposes of those lives (and also chanted Lauds) and examines the links between Bernadine’s biography, the event of the canonization and the later hagiographical writings about him. Finally, the author extends her research to the 15th-century hagiographical writings within and about the Mendicant Orders and their connection with the development of the biographical genre in the Italian humanistic culture.