Vite dei santi Paterno e Marcello
ISSN: 2611-1411
Language: Latin, Italian
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Iniziative Editoriali Srl
Description
Vite dei santi Paterno e Marcello
The lives of the saints Paterno and Marcello are part of the corpus of hagiographic works by Venanzio Fortunato that, as a whole, propose an exemplum of life for Christians in view of the construction through the iteration of some constant elements: nobility of birth, abandonment of family to follow the vocation, a virtue that manifests itself from the early years, the episcopal election desired by the people and rejected for humility by the saint, ascetic life, martyrdom sine cruore, story of miracles. The analysis of texts, translated for the first time in a modern language, allows us to grasp how the undeniable stylization, practiced with awareness by the author, does not achieve a result of total homologation and does not completely cancel that clot of specificity that each life preserves.
