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Poveri e povertā, da Francesco d’Assisi a Bernardino da Siena

 
 
 
Foto Bartoli Marco , Poveri e povertā, da Francesco d’Assisi a Bernardino da Siena, in Antonianum, 88/1 (2013) p. 73-89 .

Summary: This study analyses the contents of the Lenten sermon that Bernardine of Siena delivers in Florence, in 1425, from which there emerges the social and political sensibility of this Observant preacher. Ample space is given over to the value of alms, underlining almsgiving’s dual aspect, the ethical and the economic, the public and the private. On the one hand indeed, the practice of almsgiving concerns good government, the bonum commune; on the other hand, though, it belongs to the works of mercy privately commended to every Christian. The second part of this article means to put in evidence the high conception of almsgiving attributed to St. Francis, who spoke rather of the poor and not of solving the problem of poverty through the practice of allocating funds. In the conclusion a parallel is being hypothesized between the lives of St. Francis and of St. Bernardine of Siena, insofar as both experienced conversion through the act of renouncing their worldly goods and distributing them to the poor.




Summary in Spanish:

Sumario: El ensayo analiza el contenido de la predicacion cuaresmal que Bernardino de Siena declama en Florencia en el 1425, del que emerge la sensibilidad social y politica del predicador observante. En ella, amplio espacio es reservado al valor de la limosna, de la que se subraya la doble dimension, etica y economica, publica y privada: por un lado la practica de la limosna atane al problema del buen gobierno, al bonum commune; por otro, en cambio, a las obras de misericordia recomendadas privadamente a cada cristiano. La segunda parte de la contribucion es dirigida a evidenciar el nivel eminente en la concepcion de la limosna atribuido a S. Francesco, que habria hablado mas bien de los pobres, y no del problema de la pobreza a solucionar a traves de la practica de la donacion. En la conclusion se hipotiza un paralelo entre la biografia de Francesco y la de Bernardino de Siena, en cuanto ambos habrian hecho experiencia de la conversion por el acto de renuncia a los bienes y de su distribucion a los pobres.



 
 
 
 
 
 
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