The book examines the Apocalypsis nova, the best-known prophetic text of the late 15th and early 16th century, outlining its cultural milieu and the times of its writing and rewriting. The prophecy, whose fortune depended on the prestige of the blessed Amedeo Menez de Sylva (1420 ca.-1482), and on the legend surrounding the opening of this book, has the peculiarity of being imagined as the revelation by the archangel Gabriel of the ultimate truths that the pastor venturus was to promulgate for the reform of the Church. This peculiarity, and the postponement of the time of the book's opening, make the text a kind of chimera arriving at the time of Leo X, the prophecy's last imagined designate.
Zardin, D., Prefazione, in Fusari, G., I tempi dell’«Apocalypsis nova». Profezia e politica nei primi decenni del Cinquecento, Marcianum Press, Venezia 2024: 9-16 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/289856]
Prefazione
Zardin, Danilo
2024
Abstract
The book examines the Apocalypsis nova, the best-known prophetic text of the late 15th and early 16th century, outlining its cultural milieu and the times of its writing and rewriting. The prophecy, whose fortune depended on the prestige of the blessed Amedeo Menez de Sylva (1420 ca.-1482), and on the legend surrounding the opening of this book, has the peculiarity of being imagined as the revelation by the archangel Gabriel of the ultimate truths that the pastor venturus was to promulgate for the reform of the Church. This peculiarity, and the postponement of the time of the book's opening, make the text a kind of chimera arriving at the time of Leo X, the prophecy's last imagined designate.
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