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I'm limited to an online (and obviously inadequate) dictionary at the moment and could not find "prosimetric" in it. I'm assuming it's used to describe something written in metered prose but somehow that sounds suspiciously like poetry. (I do feel like M. Jourdain in _Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme"...) May I know what "prosimetricity" or "prosimetricness" is?
MG
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
1) Phyllis Jestice wrote:
> Today (4. October) is the feast day of:
> Petronius (d. c. 445) Petronius seems to have been a Roman official
> who became a cleric. He went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land,
> returned to become bishop of Bologna in c. 432, and set out to
> rebuild churches destroyed by the Goths---modeling them on the
> structures he had seen in Palestine.
A useful recent book on P. and his cult, with scholarly articles and
texts of his prosimetric twelfth-century Life (BHL 6641) and his later
medieval Office, is Enzo Lodi, ed., _San Petronio. Patrono della citta'
e diocesi di Bologna_ (Bologna: Edizioni Renografica, 2000; xiii, 298pp.).
P.'s basilica is Bologna's cathedral church, begun in the 1390s.
Frontal views, showing the unfinished facade, are here:
http://www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/amarconi/rds/antenne/bologna/spetronio.html
The main portal
http://www.settechiese.it/01_2001/img/pag_08.jpg
is surmounted by the Madonna flanked by saints Ambrose and Petronius:
http://www.settechiese.it/01_2001/img/pag_07.jpg
This portal is noted for its early fifteenth-century reliefs by Jacopo
della Quercia. These are shown and discussed here:
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/quercia/quercia.html
Better photographs, with expandable jpegs, are at:
http://www.thais.it/scultura/bosnpet.htm
and
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/q/quercia/bologna/42tempta.html
An interior fresco by Giovanni da Modena shows Mohammed being tortured
in hell:
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/moore/moore10-2-3.asp
This has been drawing some unfavorable attention lately:
http://www.armyofgod.com/Mohameddemons.html
and, for some context for the detail (well down on the page; search for
"Petronio"):
http://www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Thu-062702.index.html
2) I wrote:
> Today (4. October) is also the feast day of:
>
> Thomas of Celano (blessed; d. a. 1260).
This will make better sense if one reads "d. ca. 1260".
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