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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Dear Marjorie, Since Anthony was not one of yesterday's saints of the day, it took me a moment to locate the Chiesa di Sant'Antuono as the one pictured and briefly discussed in the tour of medieval Teggiano (SA): http://www.prolocoteggiano.it/proloco/storia/03.htm Even before losing much of one aisle to make way for a street in 1958 (the location of the loss is shown in the line drawing at upper left) this too cannot have been much of a muchness. Its age is unknown but it clearly antedates Teggiano's upswing in the later Middle Ages. Yes, 'Antuono' is a variant of 'Antonio'. Think of Lat. 'bonus' > Ital. 'buono' or Lat. 'locus' > Ital. 'luogo'. The diphthong in 'Antuon[various terminations]' was widespread in Italy into the early modern period, when it began to be replaced, as it now has been in standard modern Italian, by the classicizing form with which you're familiar. Now it's predominantly southern. Another proper name that's suffered a similar fate is 'Ruodo', today's 'Rodi', i.e. Rhodes. Cf. the examples in this passage from the early fifteenth-century Venetian chronicler Antonio [as we now call him] Morosini: http://tinyurl.com/2ncy9j Best, John Dillon On Monday, June 4, 2007, at 12:40 am, Marjorie Greene wrote: > John, The poor little Chiesa di Sant'Antuono is not so beautiful > either. Perhaps it should be a finalist in the, shall we say, > Aesthetically Challenged Church list. Is "Antuono" a dialectical > version of "Antonio" or a different saint altogether? > MG ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html