"Imago pietatis". La libertà della somiglianza nel dramma medievale della Passione

[Autom. eng. transl.] Starting from the Christological and anthropological meaning of freedom, the intervention focuses on the Passion of Christ as a free act that gives freedom and that offers man the free choice of a return to imaginem. To illustrate how the Passionist tale changes in relation to the changes in spirituality that occur between the 12th and 13th centuries, two textual examples are proposed, analyzed as schemes or dramaturgical devices. The first example is the Liber de Passione Christi et doloribus et planctibus Matris eius attributed today to Oglerio di Lucedio, but handed down for centuries under the name of Bernardo: we will see how the dramaturgical structure of the text - all centered on the relationship between Mary and Christ - configures an affective device that intends to arouse in the faithful the freedom chosen of compassion. The second example is the two major writings on the passion of Bonaventura da Bagnorea, the Lignum Vitae and the Vitis Mystica. In them Bonaventura follows a dramaturgical scheme which, placing the body of Jesus in its painful becoming at the center, configures a device of identification and mimetic aimed at proposing to the faithful the free choice of conformation.