medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Marjorie,
On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:17 am, you wrote:
> Two picky points:
>
> >>There are no erotic undertones in this little Passio and neither
> Fusca>nor, for that matter, Maura is said to have been beautiful.
>
> It would never have occurred to me to find erotic undertones in
> this little
> story. Have others?
Not that I'm aware of. Nor would one (at least, nor would this one)
expect others to find or even suspect such undertones here. I was
responding to a quasi-canonical element of Phyllis' summaries of the
Passiones of teen-aged female martyrs.
> >Fusca ("Darkish One"). The oldest surviving church dedicated to
> M. is
> >Santa Fosca at Torcello, a late eleventh-/early twelfth-century
> >structure connected by a colonnade to Torcello's much older ex-
> >cathedral of the Blessed Virgin (the former cathedral of the diocese
> >of Altino in exile and Venice's cathedral church from the central
> >Middle Ages to 1807).
>
> According to blurbs at the church itself and to every website I
> could find,
> San Pietro di Castello was the cathedral of Venice till 1807.
> "This church was the cathedral of Venice 'till the 1807, when Saint
> Mark's
> Basilic became the religious centre of city" is a typical statement
> from one
> of the many websites with great photos of SPdC. Clarification,
> please...MG
That's not a picky point. You are quite correct. Why I seem to have
thought otherwise when I dashed off this note escapes me. There was I
time (quite recently) when I knew better.
> >
> >Views of Torcello's Santa Fusca are here:
And here's a picky point of my own: FOR Fusca READ Fosca
Thanks for the correction,
John Dillon
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