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OSSERVAZIONI SULL’USO DELLE CITAZIONI BIBLICHE IN UNA LETTERA DI ESORTAZIONE MONASTICA DI AMBROGIO TRAVERSARI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

SIMONA IARIA*
Affiliation:
Università di Torino
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Abstract

All’Umanesimo non si deve solo un nuovo interesse filologico verso i classici latini e greci, ma anche una rinnovata attenzione nei confronti della Bibbia. Tra quanti meditarono sul testo biblico e lo posero a fondamento del proprio agire si deve annoverare Ambrogio Traversari (1386–1439), monaco camaldolese e umanista. Attraverso l’esame di una sua lettera, indirizzata ai religiosi del proprio ordine a nome del pontefice Eugenio IV poco dopo essere stato elevato alla carica di abate generale, si metterà in luce come il Traversari, nell’esortarli alla vita monastica, fondi il suo operare tanto sulla letteratura patristica, quanto soprattutto sul ricorso alla Bibbia, rispetto alla quale tralascia l’allegoria medievale per essere invece attento a trarre dal dettato biblico un esempio morale per i propri confratelli.

The age of Humanism is characterized not only by a new, philological approach to the Latin and Greek classics, but also by the renewed attention paid to the Bible. Among the many intellectuals who meditated upon biblical texts and used them as a foundation for their actions was Ambrogio Traversari (1386–1439), a Camaldulensian monk and humanist. Analysis of the sources quoted in one of his letters, which he addressed to his Order in the name of Pope Eugenius IV shortly after being promoted to the office of Abbot General, will show how Traversari, in exhorting the monks to lead an authentic monastic life, founded his work not only on patristic literature, but also on the use of the scriptures. He left medieval allegory aside, instead being careful to draw a moral example for his religious order from the words of the Bible.

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Fordham University

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