Bernardino Ochino of Siena, former Vicar-General of the Capuchin Friars, converted to Protestantism and fled Italy in 1542. After reaching Geneva in the same year, he published a book of Prediche (sermons) together with other works. These sermons were addressed to the Italian people (probably with the aim of promoting the breakthrough of Protestantism in Italy) and show some influence from Calvin’s Institutio Christianae Religionis. While never preached, Ochino’s Prediche have all the features typical of the genre to which they are supposed to belong: personal deixis, questions and exhortations, and repetition of words and clauses. Moreover, Ochino’s sermons show a distinctive rhetorical feature, the frequent use of corrections. Rather than being linked to Ochino’s polemical view of the Catholic Church, this feature relates to his way of conceiving arguments, both before and after his conversion to Protestantism.
Bernardino Ochino da Siena, vicario generale dei frati cappuccini, aderì alla Riforma e lasciò l’Italia nel 1542. Dopo aver raggiunto Ginevra nel medesimo anno, pubblicò un libro di Prediche insieme ad altre opere. Le prediche sono indirizzate ai lettori italiani, probabilmente nell’intento di promuovere l’affermazione delle idee riformate nella Penisola) e mostrano un certo influsso dell’Institutio Christianae Religionis di Calvino. Sebbene mai recitati, i sermoni di Ochino presentano tutti i tratti tipici del genere a cui dovrebbero ricondursi: deissi personale, frasi esclamative e interrogative e iterazioni. Mostrano inoltre un tratto retorico caratterizzante, l’uso frequente della correctio. Piuttosto che essere legata all’opposizione critica di Ochino alla Chiesa cattolica, tale figura dipende dal suo modo di argomentare, sia prima sia dopo il passaggio alla Riforma.
Colombo, M. (2022). Language, Rhetoric and Reformation in Bernardino Ochino’s «Prediche» ([Geneva, Jean Gérard], 1542). GIORNALE DI STORIA DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA, 1(1), 23-35 [10.6093/gisli9567].
Language, Rhetoric and Reformation in Bernardino Ochino’s «Prediche» ([Geneva, Jean Gérard], 1542)
MICHELE COLOMBO
2022
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Bernardino Ochino of Siena, former Vicar-General of the Capuchin Friars, converted to Protestantism and fled Italy in 1542. After reaching Geneva in the same year, he published a book of Prediche (sermons) together with other works. These sermons were addressed to the Italian people (probably with the aim of promoting the breakthrough of Protestantism in Italy) and show some influence from Calvin’s Institutio Christianae Religionis. While never preached, Ochino’s Prediche have all the features typical of the genre to which they are supposed to belong: personal deixis, questions and exhortations, and repetition of words and clauses. Moreover, Ochino’s sermons show a distinctive rhetorical feature, the frequent use of corrections. Rather than being linked to Ochino’s polemical view of the Catholic Church, this feature relates to his way of conceiving arguments, both before and after his conversion to Protestantism.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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