The Bigallo Triptych: A Document of Confraternal Charity in Fourteenth-Century Florence
Article | Contributor(s): William R. Levin
This article will attempt to place securely an important work of fourteenth-century Florentine painting by one of its greatest artists in its original social milieu and confraternal location, applying several methodologies to accomplish this. It takes up the challenge first by addressing the...
Review of Beata civitas. Pubblica pietà e devozioni private nella Siena del ’300
Review | Contributor(s): Mattia Zangari
Review of Confraternite. Fede e opere in Lombardia dal Medioevo al Settecento
Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler
Review of Confraternite in Trentino e a Riva del Garda
Review | Contributor(s): Katharina Logan
Review of Tres cofradías de Torrevieja (1791–1933): El Santísimo, El Rosario y Las Ánimas
Review | Contributor(s): Sara Galli
Review of L’Arciconfraternita della Santissima Vergine d’Itria in Cagliari. Profilo storico 1607–1700
Review | Contributor(s): Marcello Sabbatino
Review of Il laudario «Illuminati» e la costellazione assisiate, con un saggio di Mara Nerbano
Review | Contributor(s): Giovanna Casagrande
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Article | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler
The Confraternities of Modena between the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Rules, Social Profiles and Spirituality
Article | Contributor(s): Matteo Al Kalak
This article traces the foundation and development of confraternities in the city of Modena and identifies key events that influenced how lay associations determined the social, spiritual, and cultural responsibilities outlined in their statutes. Over time, however, the confraternities underwent...
A Lost Confraternity: San Rocco in Modena and its Church
Article | Contributor(s): Simone Sirocchi
This article retraces the history of the Confraternita di San Rocco (Confraternity of St. Roch) in Modena from its foundation in the late fifteenth century to its abolition in the eighteenth century. Thanks to newly examined archival documents, the article details the building and decorative work...
Correggio’s Madonna di San Giorgio and the Post-Tridentine Devotional Rappresentazioni at the Confraternity of Saint Peter Martyr in Modena
Article | Contributor(s): Alyssa Abraham
This article examines the ways in which the members of the confraternity of Saint Peter Martyr in Modena used ephemeral architecture, symbolic imagery, inscriptions, lavish decorations, and performance to activate and emphasize the spiritual function of Correggio’s Madonna di San Giorgio in...
Review of La Chiesa dei Bolognesi a Roma. Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio
Review | Contributor(s): Daniele Laudadio
Review of La Compagnia di San Niccolò di Bari detta del Ceppo
Review of La Fraternita del Buon Gesù nella Terra di Cantiano. Libro “B” (1576–1617) (storie e testimonianze). Special issue of Quaderni del Consiglio Regionale delle Marche vol. 23, n. 245 (March 2018)
Review of La Compagnia di San Paolo 1563–2013. Vol. 1 1563–1852, vol. 2 1853–2013
Article | Contributor(s): Marco Piana
The Thoughts of a Noble Prisoner: Giovanni Marco Pio da Carpi’s Laude as Examples of Good Morality
Article | Contributor(s): Gioia Filocamo
The fifteenth-century manuscript MS 157 of the Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna belongs to a series of books related to the task of comforting those condemned to death in Bologna. To carry out such comforting, the local Confraternity of Santa Maria della Morte (founded 1336) used, among other...
Two Fragments of a Late Fourteenth-Century Vernacular Laudario by Sante Cicchi for the Flagellant Confraternity of Santo Stefano in Assisi
Article | Contributor(s): Francesco Santucci
After a few biographical notes on the notary Sante Cicchi of Assisi and a brief description of fragment AS2 from a laudario he compiled in 1388 for the flagellant confraternity of Santo Stefano in Assisi, of which he was a member, this article examines some echoes of Dante’s Divine Comedy to be...
Fonte de Pietade: Blood Devotion and Blood Consumption in the Laudari ‘Illuminati’ and ‘Frondini’
The following article analyses episodes of blood devotion in two fourteenth-century laudari written by the members of the confraternity of the Disciplinati di Santo Stefano in Assisi, otherwise known as the ‘Frondini’ and ‘Illuminati’ laudari. Through the analysis of a selection of laude...
Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247–1297) and the Laudario of the Confraternity of Santa Maria delle Laude in Cortona
Article | Contributor(s): Mattia Zangari
For his compilation of the Life or Legend of Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247–1297), the Franciscan friar Giunta Bevegnati (thirteenth century) was guided by texts found in a collection of laude belonging to the Confraternity of Santa Maria delle laude in Cortona and the iconography associated...
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