TY - JOUR
T1 - Language, Rhetoric and Reformation in Bernardino Ochino’s Prediche ([Geneva, Jean Gérard], 1542)
AU - Colombo, Michele
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - History of the Italian language, Preaching, Rhetoric, Protestant Reformation, Ochino
KW - History of the Italian language, Preaching, Rhetoric, Protestant Reformation, Ochino
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/227579
U2 - 10.6093/gisli9567
DO - 10.6093/gisli9567
M3 - Article
VL - I
SP - 23
EP - 35
JO - Giornale di Storia della Lingua Italiana
JF - Giornale di Storia della Lingua Italiana
ER -