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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1230: The Mendicant Experience, I: Little-Known Preachers of Renaissance Florence

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Prato Consortium for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Organiser:Peter Francis Howard, School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, Monash University, Victoria
Moderator/Chair:Thomas M. Izbicki, Alexander Library, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Paper 1230-a'Pro divinissima eucaristia oratio': Francesco del Padovano and Preaching in the Papal Court of Eugenius IV
(Language: English)
Luke Bancroft, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Sermons and Preaching, Theology
Paper 1230-bDiversity in Discourse: Bartolomeo Lapacci Rimbertini OP
(Language: English)
Peter Francis Howard, School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, Monash University, Victoria
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Sermons and Preaching, Theology
Paper 1230-cPredestined to Fall?: Interpreting Genesis in Simone de Bertis's Sermons
(Language: English)
Stephanie Jury, School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, Monash University, Victoria
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Sermons and Preaching, Theology
Abstract

In studies of preaching in Renaissance Florence there is consensus about the importance of the preaching orders, but little attention has been devoted to the hundreds of preachers who have left traces of their public engagement with the city. When sermons are taken into account it is generally only by way of two unrepresentative figures: San Bernardino of Siena and Savonarola. These papers introduce three preachers, little studied in the historiography. Two preach coram papa: Francesco del Padovano OFM (1430s) and Bartolomeo Rimbertini OP (c. 1460). Simone de Bertis OP preached in response to Pico della Mirandola's teachings on predestination (1480s).