The public face of post-tridentine Italian confraternities

Journal of Religious History

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-101

  Black, Christopher F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 62149130454     PISSN: 00224227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9809.2004.00207.x     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Christopher F. Black, Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1989; reprinted 2003), had this as a major theme, but see esp. 5-7
2. For a survey of much that supports this approach, cf. Simon Ditchfield. "'In Search of Local Knowledge.' Rewriting Early Modern Italian Religious History," Cristianesimo nella Storia 19 (1998): 255-96. I am currently completing a monograph on the reform of church and society in post-tridentine Italy. This will attribute some changes to the policies and moods of Trent, and others to different, sometimes conflicting, factors in a volatile post-tridentine environment
3. Also discussed in my Early Modern Italy. A Social History (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), 157-66 (guilds and confraternities), 167-87 (parochial society), 205-10 (social amelioration, including by fraternities)
4. See his earlier work, esp. "Confraternite e communità nelle campagne milanesi fra Cinque e Seicento," La Scuola Cattolica 112 (1984): 698-732
5. his "Le confraternite in Italia settentrionale fra xv e xviii secolo," Società e Storia 10 (1987): 81-137, esp. 110-15
6. his "Relaunching confraternities in the Tridentine era: shaping conscience and Christianizing society in Milan and Lombardy," in Terpstra, Ritual Kinship, 190-209
7. Claudio Bernardi, "Il Teatro tra Scena e Ritualita," in I Tempi del Concilio, 439-60
8. Wietse De Boer, The Conquest of the Soul. Confession, Discipline, and Public Order in Counter-Reformation Milan (Leiden, Boston and Köln: Brill, 2001), 74-7
9. As stressed by Robert Bireley, The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700. A Re-Assessment of the Counter Reformation (Basingstoke and London, 1999), 107-9
10. Barbara Wisch, "New Themes for New Rituals. The Crucifixion Altarpiece by Roviale Spagnuolo for the Oratory of the Gonfalone in Rome," in Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy. Ritual, Spectacle, Image, ed. Barbara Wisch and Diane Cole Ahl (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 203-34, esp. 210-12
11. Bernardi, "Il Teatro," 451-2
12. Iain Fenlon, "Music and reform: the Savonarolan legacy," in The World of Savonarola. Italian Elites and Perceptions of Crisis (Aldershot and Burlington, Ve.: Ashgate, 2000), 233-49, quoting from note 48
13. See e.g. Danilo Zardin, "Il 'Progetto' di San Carlo Borromeo," Terra Ambrosiana 42 (2001): 59-72, esp. 69-71 on confraternity roles. I am grateful to the author for supplying me with a timely copy of this article, (along with much else, as is his generous wont)
14. Zardin, "Tra Chiesa e società 'laica'," at notes 5-9
15. Claudio Bernardi, "Corpus Domini: Metamophoses and Change," in Terpstra, Ritual Kinship, 228-42, esp. 237-9
16. Richard Mackenney "Public and Private in Renaissance Venice," Renaissance Studies 12 (1998): 109-30, quoting 109
17. On rosary devotion, see Black, Italian Confraternities, 103-4
18. Nicholas Terpstra, Lay Confraternities and Civic-Religion in Renaissance Bologna (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 220-1
19. Diario fiorentino di Agostino Lapini dal 252 al 1596, ed. Giuseppe Odoardo Corazzini (Florence: Sansoni, 1900), 195-6
20. Black, Italian Confraternities, esp. chap. 7-10
21. Black, "The Development of Confraternity Studies over the Past Thirty Years," in Terpstra, Ritual Kinship, 9-29, esp. 25-8, which highlights the key bibliography
22. Nicholas Terpstra, "Confraternal Prison Charity and Political Consolidation in Sixteenth-Century Bologna," Journal of Modern History 66 (1994): 219-48
23. On eucharistie societies visiting the sick and dying in rural areas, see Angelo Torre, "Faith's Boundaries: Ritual and territory in Rural Piedmont in the Early Modern Period," in Terpstra, Ritual Kinship, 243-61, esp. 256-7, digesting his Il consumo di devozioni. Religione e comunità nelle campagne dell'Ancien Régime (Venice, 1995), 254-69
24. and S. Maria e S.Cristoforo del Mercantt, Busta 420-1, Vol. 2 (1642-1655), f. 24r
25. Black, Italian Confraternities, chap. 10, with 237 for the pursuit of independence
26. Black, "Confraternities and the Parish," 18-19
27. Konrad Eisenbichler, The Boys of the Archangel Raphael. A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411-1785 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), 163-6
28. Bernardi, "Il Teatro," 447-8, noting that Jesuits wanted the ceremony to be during carnival, as a distraction from popular celebrations, while Capuchins used it during the first three days of Holy Week
29. Wisch, "New Themes for New Rituals," 210 contextualizes this Forty Hour devotion in the wider range of approaches to the Crucifixion, including for new altarpieces
30. Lapini, Diario fiorentino, 306-7
31. Ronald Weissman, Ritual Brotherhood in Renaissance Florence (New York: Academic Press, 1982), 229-35, with valuable quotations
32. Eisenbichler, Archangel Raphael, 163-6
33. Renato Diez, "Le Quarantore: una predica figurata," in La Festa di Roma, Vol. 2, ed. Mareello Fagiolo (Rome: Umberto Allemandi, 1997), 84-97
34. Fanti, "Culto eucharistico," 63-4
35. Cleto Corrain and Pierluigi Zampini, Documenti etnografici nei sinodi diocesani italiani (Bologna: Forni. 1970)
36. Mario Fanti, "La parrochia dei SS. Vitale e Agricola," in Vitale e Agricola. Il culto dei protomartiri di Bologna attraverso i secoli nel xvi centenario della traslazione, ed. Gina Fasoli (Bologna: Dehoniane, 1993), 232-4
37. Giacinto Gigli, Diario di Roma, 2 Vols, ed. Manlio Barberito (Editore Colomo: Rome, 1994)
38. Gigli, Diario, 146-50
39. Gigli, Diario, 581.....6, 590-1 (on foreign confraternities, their men and women, hosted in Rome by the various Roman confraternities)
40. Thomas Dandelet, Spanish Rome, 1500-1700 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), 10, 157-8, 168-70
41. See also Black, Italian Confraternities, 166, 180-1, for the confraternity of the Annunziata as the leading dowry provider for Roman women, and 113-16 on confraternity plays, sacred representations, mysteries in various cities
42. On his arguments about Spanish "nation" building, see also his, "Constructing Spanish Identity at the Center of the Old World: The Spanish Nation in Rome, 1558-1625," Historein. A Review of the Past and Other Stories (Athens) 2 (2000): 87-96
43. and earlier his "Spanish conquest and colonisation at the center of the Old World," Journal of Modern History 60 (1997): 479-511
44. Fagiolo, ed., La Festa a Roma, in which especially, on Piazza Navona, see Michele Rak, "Piazza Navona. Trionfi, teste da gioco, feste stellari," Vol. 1: 182-201, esp. 190 on the Spanish celebrations
45. and Luigi Fiorani, "Proeessioni tra devozione e politica," Vol. 2: 66-83, including comments on past processions organized by the Spanish, and their Resurrection fraternity
46. On earlier Possessi, see Irene Fosi, "Court and City in the Ceremony of the Possesso in the Sixteenth Century," in Court and Politics in Papal Rome 1492-1700, ed. Gianvittorio Signorotto and Maria Antonietta Visceglia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 31-52
47. A. Fiordelisi, "La processione e il carro di Battaglino," Napoli Nobilissima 13 (1904): 33-7, 54-7, 75-8
48. Terpstra, Lay Confraternities, esp. 215-16
49. see also Richard Trexler. "Florentine Religious Experience: the Sacred Image," Studies in the Renaissance 19 (1972): 7-41
50. Edward Muir, "The Virgin at the Street-Corner: the place of the Sacred in Italian cities," in Religion and Culture in the Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Steven Ozment (Kirksville: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1989), 25-40