Abstract
Antonino Pierozzi (hereafter, Antoninus) was a Dominican friar renowned for his achievements as a reformer, as a theologian, and for being “a mirror of holiness” to whom (according to a contemporary) crowds of devotees flocked. Antoninus was educated and later preached within the dynamic intellectual context associated with Renaissance humanism. He not only had a unique library at his disposal in the newly rebuilt convent of San Marco (1442-) but was well placed to understand the anxieties of Florentine citizens in relation to an inherited tradition. Fra Antoninus, like other successful preachers, acted as a cultural translator: he distilled, reclassified, and concretized ideas circulating in learned circles according to the circumstances most relevant to his audience (de circumstantiae). His intellectual engagement with the catholic theological and canonical traditions in terms of his own milieu is best exemplified by his monumental Summa theologica.
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Primary Literature
Apart from numerous treatises, letters and sermons, the most widely disseminated works of Antoninus include:
Confessionale “Curam illius habe”. (First published 1472).
Confessionale “Defecerunt”. (First published 1473).
Confessionale “Omnium Mortalium Cura”. (First published 1475).
La nave spirituale, opuscolo inedito del Quattrocento, ed. Teresa di Graziana OCD. In Rivista di vita spirituale, 21 (1967), pp. 107–125, 276–285; 22 (1968), pp. 106–117, 245–253; 370–381; 24 (1970), pp. 88–90, 305–316; 33 (1979), pp. 221–241, 345–355.
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Opera a ben vivere con altri suoi ammaestramenti, ed. Francesco Palermo, Florence, Cellini 1858.
Summa theologica, many manuscripts and editions (e.g. Venice 1477–80); the most readily available is: Sancti Antonini Archiepiscopi Florentini Ordinis Praedicatorum Summa Theologica. Verona: Augustus Caratonius, 1740; repr. Graz: Akademische Druck – Universitäts Verlagsanstalt, 1959.
Summa historialis (Chronicon partibus tribus distincta ab initio mundi ad MCCCCLX), many manuscripts and editions (e.g. Nurenberg 1484). A partial edition is available: Antoninus of Florence. 1913 Chroniques de Saint Antonin: Fragments Originaux du Titre XXII (1378–1459). Ed. Morçay, Raoul. Paris: Libraire Gabalda.
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Howard, P. (2017). Pierozzi, Antonino. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1121-1
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