Un volgarizzamento della bolla di Eugenio IV Ordinis tui a fra Giacomo Primadizzi in un codice bolognese (159-182)

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This article provides the transcription of a vernacular translation of the Bull Ordinis tui of Pope Eugene IV (1447) conserved in a manuscript in Bologna (Provincial Archives OFM). In this document, the Pope entrusted the care of the Italian monasteries of Poor Clares to the vicar general of the Observants, fra Giacomo Primadizzi of Bologna. By studying the content of some Clarian legislative texts, the author shows that, in the case of the Italian monasteries, there were three developments in the reform of the Second Franciscan Order. The first two developments affected the already existing monasteries as well as new foundations which both adopted the Rule of St Clare (1253); in the third development, various monasteries went on observing the Rule of Pope Urban (1263) while being placed under the care of the Observants. Pope Eugene IV’s intent was in fact to bring to the single jurisdiction of the Observants different foundations and reforms of the Second Order, but without really understanding the issues related to the observance of St. Clare’s Rule.