Bobbio

Una sinistra ipotesi per andare a Destra?
All'epoca del governo Monti fu riesumata la solita questione dell'utilità della distinzione tra Destra e Sinistra. Un mio scritto che metteva un po' in ridicolo questo dibattito e cercava di approfondire il ragionamento

¿Es necesario realizar una fundamentación filosófica de los derechos humanos? ¿Por qué? ¿Esa tarea es posible? Se trata de cuestiones indisociables: abordando la necesidad de fundamentación se involucra la pregunta por su posibilidad.
Este trabajo expone algunos lineamientos sobre estos problemas a partir del análisis del estado de la cuestión. Asimismo, se procuran caminos para la fundamentación  actualizada de los derechos humanos y su carácter universal, en favor de su vigencia, difusión y extensión.

En el presente trabajo nos proponemos investigar la relación entre política y derecho en Norberto  Bobbio.  El  trabajo  se  dividirá  en  dos  partes principales:  en  la  primera,  nos centraremos  en  esta  relación  a  través  del  concepto  de  “poder”;  en  la  segunda,
presentaremos la metáfora de las pirámides que utiliza Bobbio para representar esta relación.

Un excursus su alcuni aspetti della vita del cenobio appenninico (giuridici, amministrativi, politici, economici) nel periodo longobardo, carolingio, della cosiddetta anarchia feudale e in quello ottoniano, fino alla creazione della diocesi da parte di Enrico II, vero spartiacque per la storia del monastero. Tesi di laurea presso l'Università degli Studi Parma, a.a. 2013/2014, Dipartimento di Lettere, Arti, Storia e Società. Relatore prof. Marina Gazzini, correlatore prof. Roberto Greci.

Agnellus [p.35]; Aldius [p.44]; arimannus [p.127]; Athala [p.170]; Bertulf (abb. Bobbio) [p.233]; Carmen de Synodo Ticenensi [Papiae] [p.293] ; charters, Lombard [p.318]; Cunincpert [Cuninpert] [p.438]; fara [p.582]; Faroald I of Spoleto [pp.585-6]; Faroald II of Spoleto [p.586]; gasindius [p.642]; gastald [p.642]; Gregory II [p.685]; Gregory III [p.685]; Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani [p.728]; Honorius I Pope [pp.740-1]; John VII, Pope [p.819]; laws, Lombard [p.887]; marpahis [p.967]; Pavia [p.1153]; Perctarit [p.1158]; sc[h]uldahis [p.1339]; Secundus of Non [p.1352]; Spoleto [p.1412]; Thomas of Maurienne [p.1498]; Versus de Mediolano [p.1556]; Zacharias, Pope [p.1605]; Zotto of Benevento [p.1615].

A Bobbio l'impatto con la politica ecclesiastica del regime napoleonico genera mutamenti dagli effetti irreversibili: attorno al monastero di San Co-lombano, soppresso nel 1802, non si coagulano nel tempo le risorse religiose necessarie per avviare una potenziale ricostituzione o per una riconversione degli spazi a fini educativi o assistenziali, come non di rado si rileva per altri istituti monastici e conventuali. Con l'estinzione dell'abbazia si decreta an-che la separazione definitiva dall'archivio: non più implementato dall'attività dell'ente di cui era espressione, ha inizio per il complesso documentario, tra i più antichi e prestigiosi della penisola, una storia a sé in una nuova sede di conservazione che per disposizione sabauda sarà a Torino, negli allora Regi Archivi, dove è tuttora conservato 1. Meno radicali appaiono gli esiti legislativi sulla sorte della diocesi bobbie-se che, data la maggiore attitudine della struttura stessa a collocarsi nei futuri

Abstract
The books of the cathedral of Bobbio. Study and analysis of the century-old library (with a catalogue in appendix)
Studying Bobbio’s cathedral – a recently-established institution when compared to the wellknowm monastery of Saint Columbanus and retaining a secondary role in administering pastoral care to the community – poses a series of difficulties to any research aiming at reconstructing its century-old library. Such a study in fact, is an absolute novelty when compared to the literature which has hitherto been produced. The first part of the paper provides a codicological, paleographic, philological and textual study of the surviving attestations, which have mostly been ignored and are preserved in a surprisingly unexplored institution: Bobbio’s Archivi Storici Diocesani. Thus, also thanks to invaluable inventories, the number of the armaria originally found in the sacristy, as well as a list of the volumes destined to the canons’ study, can be reconstructed. At least eleven ascriptions can be dated with certainty to the 14th-18th century. During these later centuries certain peculiar customs persevered, such as the celebration of Saint Columbanus, and a series of processions which took place intra et extra muros, with stationes in those places of worship which were of most significance to Bobbio’s ecclesiastical and devotional history.

During the 12th and 13th century Bobbio entertained relationships only with Genoa and Piacenza among all the cities which surrounded the diocese. These cities established an efficient system of relationships – in which the economic and commercial aspects were of fundamental importance – and hindered the small episcopal see, which had been established in the Ligurian and Piacentine Appennine in 1014, from acquiring autonomy. A constant trait of the history of the diocese of Bobbio is the difficulty in managing the patrimony obtained from the constantly impoverishing monastery of Saint Columbanus, which gave the diocese substance on the territorial level. The Genoese archbishops, in whose circumscription the Bobbiese bishopric was included from 1133, deliberately chose not to intervene in the wake of such difficulties. They failed to appoint any exponent of the Ligurian clergy on Bobbio’s see (while clergy from Bobbio are attested as holders of the Ligurian see), thus showing a lack of interest on the part of the same Genoese Commune which was content to retain the use of the road through the Appennine guaranteed by the Commune of Piacenza. The growing involvement of the bishops and the Commune of the Emilian city in the overall developments in Bobbio can be measured from the fact that during the late 13th century a podestà and a bishop from Piacenza were appointed in Bobbio, thus establishing Bobbio’s peripheral status.

Contributo pubblicato negli atti del Convegno tenutosi a Bobbio  nel 2015 . "L'eredità di San Colombano . Memoria e Culto attraverso il Medioevo, Atti a cura di Eleonora Destefanis.

Convegno conclusivo tenutodi a  Bobbio, il 21 e 22 novembre, sul tema "The heritage of Columbanus. Memory and Cult in the Middle Ages" ulimo in ordine cronologico  dei tre convegni programmati nell'ambito del progetto europeo organizzato nel 2015 per commemorare il 1400° anniversario della morte di San Colombano,  dall'International Network "Making Europe: Columbanus and his Legacy/Construire l’Europe: Colomban et son héritage/Costruire l’Europa: Colombano e la sua eredità"
I primi due si sono tenuti in Irlanda, a Bangor, dal 22 al 24 maggio sul tema  “Identity and construction of identity in Europe in the early Middle Ages”, e in Francia, a Luxeuil, dal 18 al 20 settembre sul tema "Columbanus and his influence : monks and monasteries in Europe in the early Middle Ages", di cui è prossima la pubblicazione degli atti

This article analyzes the 7th-century Regula cuiusdam patris, a monastic Rule produced shortly after the death of the Irish monastic founder Columbanus (d. 615). It is, as I argue, a strong voice of dissent in the struggle who could claim Columbanus' legacy. The author develops a concept of monastic life and a theological program that is vastly different from the monastic ideal proposed in Jonas of Bobbio's Life of Columbanus. It shows similarity to the viewpoints ascribed to Agrestius who had launched a rebellion against Columbanus' successor Eusthasius of Luxeuil. The Rule may have been written by Agrestius himself or one of his followers.
The article provides the first English translation of the Regula cuiusdam patris.

Il volume accoglie i risultati di una ricerca condotta sulle epigrafi monastiche del periodo longobardo e carolingio ed
esamina, attraverso il confronto con le fonti archeologiche, storiche e paleografiche, il quadro socio-culturale di alcune
importanti abbazie. Percorrendo l’Italia da nord a sud, lo studio passa in rassegna i complessi monastici maggiormente
rappresentativi, offrendo spunti interessanti sulla composizione sociale delle comunità e sui diversi attori coinvolti. Ma
anche sull’organizzazione delle scritture esposte in rapporto allo spazio dei monasteri e, dunque, alle modalità di
segnalazione delle sepolture di monaci, abati e benefattori.
La ricerca propone ipotesi interessanti sull’interdipendenza tra scrittura epigrafica e scrittura libraria e tra officina
lapidaria e scriptorium, soffermandosi sugli scambi culturali e sulla circolazione di uomini, libri ed idee in un’ottica
comparativa tra i casi italiani e alcuni dei più noti siti monastici europei.

Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa in the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbio, the monastery founded by the Irish exile Columbanus, soon after his death in 615. He became the archivist and personal assistant to successive Bobbio abbots, travelled to Rome to obtain the first papal privilege of immunity, and served as a missionary priest on the northern borderlands of the Frankish kingdom. He spent the rest of his life in Merovingian Gaul as abbot of the double monastic community of Marchiennes-Hamage, where he wrote his Life of Columbanus, one of the most influential works of early medieval hagiography.

This book, the first major study devoted to Jonas of Bobbio, his corpus of three saints' Lives, and the Columbanian familia, explores the development of the Columbanian monastic network and its relationship to its founder. The Life of Columbanus was written following a period of crisis within the Columbanian familia and it was in response to this crisis that the Bobbio community in Lombard Italy commissioned Jonas to write the work. Alexander O'Hara presents the Life of Columbanus as a subtle and clever critique of the changes and crises that had taken place in the monastic communities since Columbanus's death. It also considers the life of Jonas as reflecting many of the changing political, cultural, and religious circumstances of the seventh century, and his writings as instrumental in shaping new concepts of sanctity and community. The result of the study is a unique perspective on the early medieval Age of Saints and the monastic and political worlds of Merovingian Gaul and Lombard Italy in the seventh century.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Reading Jonas
1. Conflicting Visions of Community: The Legacy of Columbanus
2. New Rules: The Agrestius Affair and the Regula Benedicti
3. An Italian Monk in Merovingian Gaul
4. Stilo texere gesta: Jonas the Hagiographer
5. Jonas and Biblical Stylization
6. The Miracle Accounts
7. Sanctity and Community
Epilogue
Appendices
Distribution of Biblical quotations and allusions in Jonas's hagiography
The Use of the Bible in the Vita Vedastis
The Use of the Bible in the Vita Iohannis
The Use of the Bible in the Vita Columbani
Miracle Accounts in the Vita Columbani
Miracle Accounts in Adomnán's Vita Columbae
Miracle Accounts in Book II of Gregory the Great's Dialogues
Miracle Accounts in the Vita Vedastis
Miracle Accounts in Vita Iohannis
Miracles in Muirchú's Vita Patricii
The Manuscripts of the Vita Columbani
Graphs of Miracle Accounts in Vita Columbani
Bibliography