Archivum Franciscanum Historicum

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Franciscani et natura: historicae disquisitiones

Bernard Forthomme. – Perspectives franciscaines sur notre environnement

et notre partenaire naturel

aleksander horowski, oFmCap. – Francesco novello adamo e la creazione

nella predicazione francescana del duecento e dell’inizio del

trecento

laure solignaC. – nature et technique selon Bonaventure et roger Bacon

lorenzo CaPPelletti. – dalla “Pietas per le creature” alla “Predica agli

uccelli”. le rappresentazioni della “Predica agli uccelli” nella Basilica

di s. Francesco ad assisi

luCiano Bertazzo, oFmConv. – tra scientia e mirabilia. relazioni di

viaggio francescane tra Xiii e XiV secolo

marzia CesChia, Fdt. – il codice del creato. un’esegesi dell’esperienza

spirituale in alcune mistiche francescane

manuel lázaro Pulido. – el pensamiento franciscano ibérico-castellano

entre la edad media y la edad moderna: variaciones sobre el tema de

la naturaleza .

saVerio CamPanini. – experimental science and kabbalah in the works of

Francesco giorgio (1466-1540)

asunCión laVrin. – Franciscan missionaries as witnesses of nature in Colonial

mexico

Benedikt mertens, oFm – mauro PaPalini. – la spezieria francescana.

notizie storiche (sec. XVi-XViii) .

Pierre moraCChini. – « Ces horreurs changées en délices ». le sainteynard

vu par le récollet archange de Clairmont

antonio CiCeri. – agostino mandirola e il Manuale di (de’) Giardinieri o

Giardino de’ fiori

Benedikt mertens, oFm. – lerchen am Barockhimmel. Fortunat huebers

Ornithologia moralis (1678)

martin elBel. – the great Comet of 1680. amandus hermann between

theory and experience

Jordan kellman. – a recollect among the dakota sioux: louis hennepin

and the Plains Bison

FaBienne henryot. – Pierre Étienne et le Bonheur rural (1788) : la nature

au coeur de la sécularisation de l’Écriture chez les frères mineurs français

au XViiie siècle

simone BorChi. – i Francescani a la Verna ospiti e affittuari del bosco

(1810-1814 e 1866-1934): dalla prassi alla regolamentazione

Miscellanea

alessandra Bartolomei romagnoli. – il libro di agnese Blannbekin.

mistica e profezia nella Vienna di fine duecento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Summaria

Recensiones

messa, Pietro [oFm]. – Breviarium Sancti Francisci. un manoscritto tra

liturgia e santità. – (william J. short)

Pirone, Bartolomeo. – al-malik al-kmil e i cristiani d’egitto. – (Jason

welle)

riCCi, adelaide – Apparuit effigies. dentro il racconto delle stigmate. –

(solanus Benfatti)

dalarun, JaCques. – Corpus franciscanum. François d’assise, corps et

textes. – (Bernardo molina)

sChumaCher, lydia – ByChkoV, oleg (eds. and transl.). – a reader in early

Franciscan theology. the Summa Halensis. – (riccardo saccenti)

iohannis de ruPella [omin.] quaestiones disputatae de legibus. – (Claus

a. andersen)

BoBillier, stèVe – thornton, ryan [oFm] (eds.). – Peter of John olivi:

Construction of the human Person. anthropology, ethics, and society.

– (Peter nickl)

Piron, sylVain. – Pietro di giovanni olivi e i francescani spirituali. –

(Paolo Vian)

raimundi lulli opera latina 64, ars ad faciendum et solvendum quaestiones.

– (rafael ramis Barceló)

Pellegrini, letizia. – Bernardo aquilano e la sua Cronaca dell’Osservanza

con nuova edizione e traduzione a fronte. – (antal molnár)

augustin Von alVeldt, oFm. – erklärung und Verteidigung der klarissen-

regel Papst urbans iV. – (alexander sembdner)

Cohen, thomas m. – harrison, Jay t. – reX galindo, daVid (eds.). – the

Franciscans in Colonial mexico. – (Éric roulet)

griPPaudo, ilaria. – musica e devozione nella «Città felicissima». ordini

religiosi e pratiche sonore a Palermo tra Cinque e seicento. – (maria

Paola Borsetta)

moCCiaro, Pietro. – Francesco d’assisi nel settecento riformatore. l’indagine

storico-critica dei gesuiti Bollandisti negli Acta Sanctorum

(1768). – (mícheál mac Craith)

Notae bibliographicae

libri ad nos missi ..

index alphabeticus

tabula materiarum.

index auctorum anni 2022

 

 

EDITORIAL NOTE

Earlier this year, we lost Fr. Carlo Paolazzi,

oFM (1938-2022), to Sister Death. He was a

member of the Frati Editori di Quaracchi from 1999

to 2008 and an eminent scholar of Dante alighieri

and of the writings of Francis of assisi. To his

memory, we dedicate this themed aFH volume on

“Franciscans and Nature – Historical investiga –

tions”. in a 2019 lectio magistralis at the Pontifical

University antonianum on Francis’s Canticle of

Brother Sun, the late Fr. Carlo wrote:

Uno dei tratti piu caratteristici della spiritualita evangelica di Francesco

consiste nella rinuncia radicale al possesso delle cose materiali, ma questo

non gli ha impedito di contemplare con occhio stupito tutte le creature,

riscoperte e amate all’interno del disegno provvidente del santissimo

Padre nostro […]. infatti non c’e dubbio che le espressioni frate Sole,

sora luna e frate Vento possono nascere solo da un sentimento

vivissimo della paternita divina, che in forme diverse ha fatto buone, simili

a se e sorelle tra loro tutte le cose.1

This theological intuition of a fraternal interconnectedness of all

creatures and its practical consequences for a respectful human

cohabitation with whatever sora nostra matre Terra (Canticle 20)

produces and hosts did not really develop into an identity marker of

Franciscan thought and Franciscan communities throughout later

centuries. However, to lament this fact would mean to anachronistically

apply current ecological concerns to past times very different from ours.

The theological and intellectual climate at large has not always been

receptive to an engaging view on nature. For example, Friar Candide

Chalippe, in his 1728 Life of St Francis, deplores that heretics and critics

of his time ridiculed the vision of the fraternisation of all creatures and

of a tender-hearted approach to animals, as it springs from Francis’s

biography and Bonaventure’s theological interpretation. For his part, he
apologetically claims that Francis’s stance and the resulting teachings for

his followers were not merely sentimental but in line with what can be

read in Scripture and in the lives of the saints.2

The topic of Francis’s close relationship with the natural

environment will resurface strongly only in the Romantic literature of

the 19th century and is echoed today in his being saintly patron of

ecologists (1979) and a driving force behind Pope Francis’s encyclic

Laudato sì (2015).3 The current volume of aFH humbly attempts to help

fill the gap between Francis and today’s theological and pastoralpractical

contribution to a widening ecological awareness. indeed, we

would like to address many questions to the brothers and sisters of the

Franciscan family between the 13th and 19th centuries: How did they

perceive and interpret nature, and how did they actively shape it? Did

they show concern for natural resources? How did they relate to animals?

Did Francis’s ‘passion for Creation’ also shape the image that later

centuries had of him? The seventeen studies in this volume do not

precisely answer these questions, and, as i said, it would be anachronistic

to expect such answers. Nevertheless, the case studies reveal a wide

variety of historical approaches to nature to be found among Franciscans,

brothers and sisters: philosophical, theological, scientific, experiential,

homiletic, mystical, symbolic, aesthetic, utilitarian, and protective.

it is our wish that these essays may trigger more studies on the

historical (Franciscan) echoes of our current understanding of nature and

our ecological concern.

FR. BENEDikT MERTENS, oFM

General Editor AFH