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Correction: Ertl (2025). The Afterlife of Petrarch’s Liber sine nomine in Catholic and Protestant Contexts: The Case of Bernhard von Kraiburg’s Epistle on the Fall of Constantinople (1453). Religions 16: 1318
by Péter Ertl
Religions 2026, 17(3), 299; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel17030299 - 28 Feb 2026
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In the original publication (Ertl 2025), (Ertl 2025) was not cited [...] Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Peccata Lectionis)
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The Afterlife of Petrarch’s Liber sine nomine in Catholic and Protestant Contexts: The Case of Bernhard von Kraiburg’s Epistle on the Fall of Constantinople (1453)
by Péter Ertl
Religions 2025, 16(10), 1318; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16101318 - 17 Oct 2025
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Petrarch’s Liber sine nomine is a collection of satirical letters against the Avignon Curia, remarkable for its stylistic refinement. It offered later readers multiple possibilities of interpretation and reuse, serving both as a rhetorical model and as a resource for anti-papal argumentation. While [...] Read more.
Petrarch’s Liber sine nomine is a collection of satirical letters against the Avignon Curia, remarkable for its stylistic refinement. It offered later readers multiple possibilities of interpretation and reuse, serving both as a rhetorical model and as a resource for anti-papal argumentation. While literary application predominated in the fifteenth century, the collection was later repurposed in religious debates between Protestants and Catholics. This paper examines a little-known episode in its afterlife, namely the epistle on the fall of Constantinople in 1453 by Bernhard von Kraiburg, chancellor of the Archbishop of Salzburg and later Bishop of Chiemsee. Close philological analysis shows that Bernhard adapted extensive passages from the Liber sine nomine and, along with a few other authors, established a distinct line of reception by reinterpreting selected letters as prayers. In the second half of the seventeenth century, however, Bernhard’s work met an analogous fate to that of its model. It was read and reframed from a Lutheran perspective by Johann Konrad Dieterich, professor of Greek and history at the University of Gießen, and was subsequently subjected to indirect censorship in the Index librorum prohibitorum. Full article
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Beatrice, Laura, and the Others: The Fin de Siècle Debate on Female Inspirers and the Popularising Turn of Giovanni Federzoni and Eugenia Codronchi (Sfinge)
by Arianna De Gasperis
Humanities 2025, 14(6), 114; https://doi.org/10.3390/h14060114 - 27 May 2025
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Between the late-nineteenth and the early-twentieth centuries, Beatrice and Laura, as literary characters and beloved women of Dante and Petrarch, were at the centre of a vigorous scholarly debate, which gained traction in Romagna’s literary circles. Offering a comparative analysis of two key [...] Read more.
Between the late-nineteenth and the early-twentieth centuries, Beatrice and Laura, as literary characters and beloved women of Dante and Petrarch, were at the centre of a vigorous scholarly debate, which gained traction in Romagna’s literary circles. Offering a comparative analysis of two key case studies—La vita di Beatrice Portinari (1904) by Giovanni Federzoni, and Laura’s biographical profile from Femminismo storico (1901) by Sfinge (Eugenia Codronchi Argeli)—this article reconstructs the popularising turn of this debate and its effect on medieval female characters’ reception as poetic inspirers. While Federzoni is motivated by didactic aims, seeking to facilitate readers’ access to the Commedia by deconstructing Beatrice’s abstraction, Sfinge elevates Laura as a model for contemporary women. Through an accessible structure and a hybrid methodology blending historical inquiry with literary imagination, both authors challenge allegorical readings and reclaim Beatrice and Laura as historically grounded figures. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Interpretation of Fictional Characters in Literary Texts: History of Literary Criticism, Philosophy and Formal Ontologies)
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Between Repentance and Desire: Women Poets and the Word in Early Modern Italy
by Sarah Rolfe Prodan
Religions 2023, 14(5), 608; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14050608 - 6 May 2023
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In early modern Italy, lyric poets of spiritual verse experimented with engaging and depicting the divine Word in novel ways. They aestheticized bodies, including that of Christ, and they imagined eroticized encounters between themselves and the Word made flesh. This article examines the [...] Read more.
In early modern Italy, lyric poets of spiritual verse experimented with engaging and depicting the divine Word in novel ways. They aestheticized bodies, including that of Christ, and they imagined eroticized encounters between themselves and the Word made flesh. This article examines the sensual spiritual poetry of three early modern Italian women who, between 1530 and 1630, dedicated themselves to crafting and reinvigorating the poetic word and to expressing and (re)presenting the divine Word. Exploring the introspective and subjective spiritual lyrics of Vittoria Colonna (1492–1547), Laura Battiferri (1523–1589), and Francesca Turini Bufalini (1553–1641) in the context of the Italian literary Renaissance and Counter-Reformation, it aims to highlight and to elucidate the conflation of the sacred and the erotic in their verse. In so doing, this article reveals how these early modern female poets deployed the sensual strategically in their verse to elevate the erotic and how they raised the Italian religious lyric to new literary heights by spiritualizing the dominant poetic idiom. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking Catholicism in Early Modern Italy: Gender, Space, Mobility)
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