An Amphibious Identity: Apollonio Bianchi between Observance and Humanism
Pietro Delcorno
Chapter from the book: Delcorno P. & Roest B. 2023. Observant Reforms and Cultural Production in Europe: Learning, Liturgy and Spiritual Practice.
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Chapter from the book: Delcorno P. & Roest B. 2023. Observant Reforms and Cultural Production in Europe: Learning, Liturgy and Spiritual Practice.
This chapter discusses the homiletic activities and the oratorical style of the Franciscan Observant friar Apollonio Bianchi (d. 1450). The focus on this as yet understudied preacher and author sheds light on the Franciscan Observance in crucial years of its development and emancipation within the wider Franciscan order, and also shows how such a preacher embraced a consciously hybrid rhetorical persona, a phenomenon that help to understand the complex relationship between Observance and Humanism in fifteenth-century Italy.
Delcorno, P. 2023. An Amphibious Identity: Apollonio Bianchi between Observance and Humanism. In: Delcorno P. & Roest B (eds.), Observant Reforms and Cultural Production in Europe. Nijmegen: Radboud University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54195/XFRB6134_CH03
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Published on Aug. 9, 2023