Le Miroir de la vraie penitence et autres traites de spiritualite
by Jacopo Passavanti, edited and translated by Denise Alexandre
Paperback (Published)
(May 2013)
ISBN: 9782812409851
Price: $41.00
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Le Miroir de la vraie penitenceby Jacopo Passavanti reproduces his sermons from Lent 1354, and includes fifty exemplary tales of diverse human destinies. Five other spiritual treatises deal with pride, vainglory, humility, and magic and dreams in an echo of medieval demonology.
- By (author) Jacopo Passavanti
- Edited and translated by Denise Alexandre
Review - French Le Miroir de la vraie penitence, edite des 1495, est la transcription de sermons de careme prononces a Florence en 1354 par Jacopo Passavanti, frere dominicain appartenant au couvent de Sainte-Marie-Nouvelle. Ses exhortations au repentir et a la confession sacramentelle sont etayees par des references bibliques et patristiques. Elles sont illustrees par desexempla, brefs recits qui s'apparentent a des nouvelles, lesquels ont largement contribue au succes de l'oeuvre, maintes fois reeditee en Italie. Les autres traites de Passavanti qui font suite ont pour sujet les peches d'orgueil et de vaine gloire ainsi que la vertu d'humilite, puis la magie et les songes qui relevent eux-memes, selon notre auteur, de la demonologie.
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