Abstract
Research into the events surrounding Peter of Verona, a Dominican friar killed on the
road between Como and Milan in the Spring of 1252 and canonized less than a year later, has
produced important studies in the last few years, which now allow us to draw a more precise
picture. The impression remains, however, that the reconstruction of the life of the person who
was to be venerated as St. Peter the Martyr – both in its hagiographical and historiographical
versions, though in opposite senses – is infl uenced by the importance of his destiny post mortem.
This paper aims to clarify Peter’s position in the religious and political Milanese chequer
board, and more generally, in that of northern Italy in the mid thirteenth century, to shed light
on the conspiracy which was to lead to his killing. It also takes into consideration a number of
documents, which scholars have so far tended to neglect, regarding the Milanese lay confraternities,
whose foundation is made to date back to Peter himself, which appear to shed light
on these aspects. The picture which emerges shows a substantial continuity between Peter’s
activities in life and the promotion of his cult after his death, in the wider strategies of the
Dominican Order and the Papacy.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] "More than a living thing he will do against them." The life of the death of a Milano e culto di Pietro da Verona |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 31-55 |
Numero di pagine | 25 |
Rivista | Rivista di storia della chiesa in Italia |
Volume | 65 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2011 |
Keywords
- Eretici
- comune milano
- domenicani
- dominicans
- frati predicatori
- heretics
- medioevo
- pietro da verona
- pietro martire