Apollonio Bianchi was a Franciscan friar able to address the crowds with spectacular bonfires of vanities while, at the same time, he wrote orations, treatises, and letters following the rules of the humanistic rhetoric, addressing princes and cardinals in the most qualifying forms of the time. His hybrid and conscious cultural identification (expressed by adopting models and discursive practices) is ideal to investigate the multifaceted and complex relationship between Observance and humanism. In his Libellus de vite pauperis prestantia (1441-1444), Apollonio suggests a conciliation between the two movements by presenting the Observant preacher as the mature outcome of a religious order exalted as home of the litterarum studia. Expressed in humanist forms, this manifesto of a Franciscan self-awareness was part of the larger debate on the role of learning within the Observance. By situating Apollonio alongside the main authors of his time, the humanist miscellanies, copied and disseminated also outside Italy, show that he was actually perceived as part of the broader respublica litterarum.

Apollonio Bianchi fu un frate minore capace di arringare le folle con pirotecnici falò delle vanità e – al contempo – comporre orazioni, trattati e lettere secondo i canoni della retorica umanistica, rivolgendosi così a principi e cardinali secondo le forme più qualificanti dell’epoca. Questa ibrida e consapevole identificazione culturale (espressa attraverso l’adesione a modelli e pratiche discorsive) risulta preziosa per delineare, concretamente, lo sfaccettato e complesso rapporto tra Osservanze e umanesimo. Nel Libellus de vite pauperis prestantia (1441-1444), Apollonio propone una conciliazione tra i due movimenti, indicando nell’oratore osservante il frutto maturo di un Ordine magnificato come dimora dei litterarum studia. Espresso in forme umanistiche, questo manifesto di autocoscienza minoritica si inseriva nel contemporaneo dibattito sul ruolo degli studi nell’Osservanza. Infine, le miscellanee umanistiche, copiate e diffuse anche fuori dall’Italia, affiancano Apollonio ai maggiori autori dell’epoca, mostrando come egli fu effettivamente percepito come parte di una più vasta respublica litterarum.

Delcorno, P., Falcone, M. (2022). Tra prassi umanistica e autocoscienza osservante: Frate Apollonio Bianchi († 1450). MÉLANGES DE L'ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE DE ROME. MOYEN AGE, 134(1), 127-163 [10.4000/mefrm.10158].

Tra prassi umanistica e autocoscienza osservante: Frate Apollonio Bianchi († 1450)

Delcorno, Pietro
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2022

Abstract

Apollonio Bianchi was a Franciscan friar able to address the crowds with spectacular bonfires of vanities while, at the same time, he wrote orations, treatises, and letters following the rules of the humanistic rhetoric, addressing princes and cardinals in the most qualifying forms of the time. His hybrid and conscious cultural identification (expressed by adopting models and discursive practices) is ideal to investigate the multifaceted and complex relationship between Observance and humanism. In his Libellus de vite pauperis prestantia (1441-1444), Apollonio suggests a conciliation between the two movements by presenting the Observant preacher as the mature outcome of a religious order exalted as home of the litterarum studia. Expressed in humanist forms, this manifesto of a Franciscan self-awareness was part of the larger debate on the role of learning within the Observance. By situating Apollonio alongside the main authors of his time, the humanist miscellanies, copied and disseminated also outside Italy, show that he was actually perceived as part of the broader respublica litterarum.
2022
Delcorno, P., Falcone, M. (2022). Tra prassi umanistica e autocoscienza osservante: Frate Apollonio Bianchi († 1450). MÉLANGES DE L'ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE DE ROME. MOYEN AGE, 134(1), 127-163 [10.4000/mefrm.10158].
Delcorno, Pietro ; Falcone, Marco
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