Il Dio di Randazzo' e i "goffi, et ignoranti" dell'Academico Arciasino (original) (raw)

2018

Abstract

In one of his Postille storico-letterarie dedicated to Bruno, Vincenzo Spampanato identified the so-called ‘Dio di Randazzo’ mentioned in De la causa with the sixteenth-century ‘crocifisso della pioggia’ attributed to Giovanni de Matinati of Messina. However, the real ‘God of Randazzo’ is an older, wooden, Byzantine-style crucifix in which Christ is wearing a tunica inconsutilis and has suffering features that are typical of the iconography of the Holy Face. It was described by an erudite and restless Sicilian poet, Antonio Filoteo degli Omodei, who had moved to Rome and befriended Annibal Caro and other men of letters of that time. Niccolò Franco’s Costituti indicate that he had also attracted the attention of the Holy Offic

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