Marco Piana

Biographic Data

ID5767995
NAMEMarco Piana
GIVEN NAMESMarco
FAMILY NAMEPiana
SIGNATUREPIANA M
AFFILIATIONSSmith College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0

  • Fonte de Pietade

    Marco PianaARTICLEConfraternitas2020

    The following article analyses episodes of blood devo­tion in two fourteenth-century laudari written by the members of the confraternity of the Disciplinati di Santo Stefano in Assisi, oth­erwise known as the ‘Frondini’ and ‘Illuminati’ laudari. Through the analysis of a selection of laude celebrating Good Friday and Corpus Domini, this article explores how the holy blood of Christ is adored, poured, and metaphorically “consumed” in the narrative…

  • Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260–1610

    Andrew H Chen, Marco PianaARTICLEConfraternitas2020

  • Terruggia, Angela Maria (†), Francesco Santucci, Gina Scentoni, and Daniele Sini. Il laudario “Illuminati” e la costellazione assisiate, con un saggio di Mara Nerbano

    Marco PianaARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2020

    Terruggia, Angela Maria (†), Francesco Santucci, Gina Scentoni, and Daniele Sini. Il laudario “Illuminati” e la costellazione assisiate, con un saggio di Mara Nerbano. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 43, Number 1, Winter 2020, pp. 9-309), on Érudit

  • Gods in the Garden

    Marco PianaARTICLEJournal of Religion in Europe2020

    This essay 1 explores the reception of Pope Julius ii ’s statuary deities in his Cortile del Belvedere through the poetic works of two humanists, papal courtier Evangelista Maddaleni de’ Capodiferro and Savonarolan philosopher Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola. The construction of the Cortile animated a lively querelle on the state and mission of the Catholic Church, as it allowed the pagan idols of antiquity to re-enter the holy grounds of the …

  • Written in Blood

    Marco PianaARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2020

    This article aims to provide an analysis of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s hymn Staurostichon in view of other examples of Savonarolan blood devotion. Staurostichon describes a supernatural event that took place in Germany between 1501 and 1503, when unusual rainfalls started to mark people’s bodies and garments with shapes of red crosses and other symbols generally connected to Christ’s Passion. Often interpreted as a rain of divine blood,…

  • Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni. Lettere

    Open AccessMarco PianaARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2019

  • Libellus Addressed to Leo X, Supreme Pontiff

    Paolo Giustiniani, Pietro Querini et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2019

  • Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy

    Alessia Meneghin, Marco Piana et al.BOOKDomestic Devotions in Early…2019

    Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy illuminates the vibrancy of spiritual beliefs and practices which profoundly shaped family life in this era. Scholarship on Catholicism has tended to focus on institutions, but the home was the site of religious instruction and reading, prayer and meditation, communal worship, multi-sensory devotions, contemplation of religious images and the performance of rituals, as well as extraordinary events such as …

  • Lettere

    Marco PianaARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2019

  • The Letters of Marsilio Ficino

    Marsilio Ficino, Marco Piana et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2018

    Ficino, Marsilio. The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: Volume 10 Being a Translation of Liber XI. Trans. members of the Language Department of the London School of Economics. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Piety and Conflict in the Early Reformation), on Érudit

  • Jane K Wickersham, Rituals of Prosecution, the Roman Inquisition and the Prosecution of Philo-Protestants in Sixteenth Century Italy

    Open AccessMarco PianaARTICLEForum Italicum A Journal of…2014