The purpose of this article is to analyse how nature and love were presented and employed as foundations of human society by the Dominican friar Giordano de Pisa (c. 1260- 1311) in his preaching in the early fourteenth-century Florence, Italy. It will be analysed the reportationes of three of his sermons preached on the same liturgical date (Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday), between 1303 and 1305, which adopts as thema the verse Diliges proximum tuum sicut te ipsum (Love your neighbour as yourself); a model-sermon of the same liturgical date (c. 1267-1286) by the also Dominican Iacopo de Varazze (1228-1298); and a homily of Augustine of Hippo (354-430) from the early fifth century. Thus, it is stressed that Giordano approached the subject both by the use of an Aristotelian-naturalist theory as well as by an Augustinian-voluntarist conception, and it is concluded that the greater emphasis given to the first line of thought is due to its more positive character as regards the city, which allowed a treatment more consistent with the preaching thema and with its internal composition mechanisms.
The purpose of this article is to establish a synthetic concept of preaching according with the statements expressed by three Friars Preachers in the second half of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century. Starting with the definition by the theologian Alain de Lille (1128-1202), today taken as paradigmatic, three works of different natures are analysed and compared: De eruditione religiosorum praedicatorum (1263), by Humbert of Romans (1190-1277); the Libellus artis predicatorie (1290), by Jacobus of Fusignano (? -1333); and the reportationes of two sermons (1304) by Giordano da Pisa (c. 1260-1311). As conclusion, preaching is synthesized into a concept as an instruction on the Holy Scriptures, divine things, faith and truth; as well as about morals, vices and sins, whose goal is the salvation of its audience.
Florence's Foundation in the Laudatio besides establishing a parallel to Genoa's Foundation as described by Jacobus of Varagine (1228-1298) in his Chronica civitatis Ianuensis (1292Ianuensis ( -1295 precisely on their regard to the ancient Roman origin attributed to these cities.
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