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- Title
MAGNIFICENZA MONASTICA A GLORIA DI DIO. L'ABBAZIA DI SANTA GIUSTINA DI PADOVA.
- Authors
BENUCCI, FRANCO
- Abstract
After a general overwiev of a recent collective book about Santa Giustina, due to the centenary of the restauration of the monastical presence in the historical abbey and rich of no less than 44 contributions devoted to both the history and the varied artistic and cultural heritage of the Paduan monastery, the note lingers over a subject which, although crucial in itself, has been underestimated by all the authors, even those who more closely dealt with the late-antique origins of the Justinian complex, i.e. the actual role played by the patrician Opilio in the foundation of the basilica vel oratorium in honore sanctae Iustinae. A polyhedral analysis of the text of the well-known inscription which commemorates the event and perpetuates the memory of the pious and generous conditor, carried out from several points of view, concluding that the building conceived a fundamentis was just one: the oratory now named to Saint Prosdocimo, which according to the use of the papal chancellory was also called basilica, of those times simply lent against a preexistent church, doomed to become later the basilica of Santa Giustina, in the present sense of the word.
- Subjects
SANTA Claus; CULTURAL property; ABBEYS; MONASTERIES; INSCRIPTIONS; PRIMITIVE &; early church, ca. 30-600; PAPAL encyclicals
- Publication
Santo: Rivista Francescana di Storia Dottrina Arte, 2021, Vol 61, Issue 3, p491
- ISSN
0391-7819
- Publication type
Article