NOCTUA

La tradizione filosofica dall’antico al moderno

History of Philosophy from the Ancient to the Modern Age

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Autore / Author: Luca Burzelli

Affiliazione / Author affiliation: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Titolo / Title: Monachi et doctores. Gli opuscoli di Gasparo Contarini sulla predicazione

Abstract: The two treatises Modus concionandi and Istructio pro concionatoribus were written by Gasparo Contarini for the preachers of Belluno between 1538 and 1541. With these works, Contarini explores three aspects of the predication. First, he focuses on a rhetorical issue: the language of the predication must be adequate for an inexpert audience. Second, he suggests to censure the most complex theological issues from the field of the predication since the audience could not understand such technical concepts like predestination and causal bounds. Third, he reveals that the aim of the predication is to help a civil ethic and to avoid social disorders – like those triggered by Augustinian preachers. In the texts Contarini also shows his debt to Pietro Pomponazzi, who in his Tractatus and Apologia provided both a civic paradigm and an accusation of the bad preachers.

Keywords: Gasparo Contarini; preachers; Augustinianism; free will; predestination; concio.

English title: Monachi et doctores. The Opuscules of Gasparo Contarini on Preaching

DOI: 10.14640/NoctuaVII2

Anno / Volume: VII

Fascicolo / Issue: 1

Pagine / Pages: 68-132

Pubblicazione / Publication date: 01/02/2020

Permalink: https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/NoctuaVII2

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