Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce (1425-1495)

Giacomo Mariani, Ph.D. (2019), is currently postdoctoral fellow at the Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia. He has published on late medieval and early modern Italian religious history.

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Biographical Chronology



Introduction



PART 1: An Image Shaped Over the Centuries: Fame and the Historiographical Tradition of a Preacher



1 Franciscan Historiography Concerning a Controversial Friar

2 The Influence of Defaming Comments and the Waning of a Style of Preaching



PART 2: The Life



3 Youth and Family (1425–c. 1446)

4 First Successful Preaching in Umbria (c. 1446–1448)

5 Itinerant Preaching in Central and Southern Italy (1448–1450)

6 Preaching in Padua (1450–1451)

7 Brescia, Milan, and Forlì (1451)

8 Roberto’s Break from the Observant Family (1452–1453)

9 Renewed Attacks against the Observant Reform (1453–1455)

10 Preaching the Crusade in Rome (1455–1457)

11 Preaching in Milan (1457–1458)

12 Florence and Rome (1459–1461)

13 Preaching the Crusade in Northern Italy (1463)

14 Rome, Bologna, Ferrara, Naples and Genoa (1464–1467)

15 The Devil’s Activity in the World (1467–1470)

16 Preacher in Naples and Ecclesiastical Career in Rome (1470–1480)

17 From the Siege of Otranto to the Last Years in Lecce (1480–1495)



PART 3: The Works and Fame



18 Preaching between Action and Intellectual Debate

19 Preaching, Writing, and Printing Sermons in Fifteenth-Century Italy

20 The Editorial History of Roberto’s Sermon Collections

21 Outlines of the Manuscript Diffusion of Roberto’s Sermons

22 The Readers of Roberto’s Sermon Collections

23 The Fame of the Celebrated Preacher



PART 4: Appendix



Appendix I: A Catalogue of Roberto’s Printed Sermon Collections

Appendix II: A Current Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Roberto’s Works

Appendix III: A Guide to Roberto’s Sermon Collections: Tables of Contents of His Latin Printed Works



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