Santit\ue0\ua0 e cura d'anime dal XIII al XX secolo. Atti del Seminario, Vicenza 9 novembre 2001, a cura di L.Billanovich

Promotrice e organizzatrice del seminario di studio, di cui ha poi curato l\u2019edizione degli Atti, l\u2019autrice illustra nella Introduzione ragioni, rilevanza e risvolti problematici dell\u2019inedito tema di ricerca individuato e proposto all\u2019attenzione, costituito da un binomio - santit\ue0 e cura d\u2019anime - che non ha avuto consistenza e fortuna nella plurisecolare storia delle canonizzazioni cattoliche, salvo che nel quadro del riassetto ecclesiastico otto-novecentesco imperniato sulla valorizzazione del ruolo sociale dei parroci

Mariangelo Accursio and Pirro Ligorio. The possibile (and interesting) genesis of CIL VI 990* and CIL VI 991*

This paper aims at providing a detailed analysis of two epigraphic forgeries transcribed by the notorious Renaissance architect, artist and ‘counterfeiter’ Pirro Ligorio under the lemma ‘Accursia’ in his ‘Enciclopedia del mondo antico’: CIL, VI 990* and CIL, VI 991*. In particular, we made an attempt to identify the authentic inscriptions that might have provided Ligorio with the necessary inspiration to realize these two forgeries and to shed new light on the curious choice of the nomen ‘Accursius’, which appears in both the tex

Lineamenti per una storia della critica della falsificazione epigrafica

This article offers the first comprehensive investigation of the history of scholarship related to epigraphic forgeries. Fake inscriptions were already produced in Antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages, but their number began to rise dramatically from the Renaissance onwards. By the mid-1500s, scholars became attentive of the risks of using fake sources for antiquarian purposes, while in the 17th and 18th centuries they started isolating forged or suspect texts within specific sections of their new epigraphic corpora. Tentative sets of criteria for isolating non-genuine inscriptions were first identified by Scipione Maffei around 1720, but an actual epistemology for epigraphic criticism was only developed by Theodor Mommsen and his collaborators in the mid-1800s. Since then, most corpora and critical editions have, often implicitly, followed their scientific principles. Current scholars should be well aware of them, because they can present both considerable rewards and serious shortcomings