Tra Ambrogio e Agostino, tra Milano e l’Africa
A number of well-known passages of the Vita Ambrosii by Paulinus (completed by the Vita Antonii by Athanasius and by passages from Ambrose himself) have been reconsidered here from a new perspective, which seems to deserve a more thorough examination. The composition of the Vita Ambrosii was commiss...
| Published in: | Annali di studi religiosi |
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| Language: | Italian |
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2001
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Annali di studi religiosi
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| Summary: | A number of well-known passages of the Vita Ambrosii by Paulinus (completed by the Vita Antonii by Athanasius and by passages from Ambrose himself) have been reconsidered here from a new perspective, which seems to deserve a more thorough examination. The composition of the Vita Ambrosii was commissioned to the deacon Paulinus (the secretary of Ambrose of Milan in 394-397 A.D.) by Augustine, probably in 422 A.D. In fact, it seems to respond to the requirements of the anti-pelagian polemic developed in these very years by bishop of Hippo, and – twenty-five years after his death – it bestows upon its hero charismatic virtues opposed to the exclusively political dimension conferred to the same persona by the Pelagians. However, Ambrose himself already suggested such an interpretation by repeated comparisons of his ideal bishop with the prophet Elisha. In the Vita Ambrosii Paulinus also describes various miracles accomplished by the bishop of Milan in close imitation of the miracles carried out by Elisha in the second Book of Kings. The choice of such a model was not at all fortuitous. We already find it in the Vita Antonii by Athanasius of Alexandria; and here a tentative explanation is given both of their common denominators and of their differences as well. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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