PATARINI. — In common usage from the 12th century, this term in Italy referred to heretics who, rebelling against ecclesiastical authority, inclined more or less toward the errors of the Cathars-Albigensians (v.) and were thus closely associated with them, leading to their inclusion in papal and imperial proscriptions. They must therefore be distinguished from Pataria (v.). — Pio Paschini
PATENA. — From the Greek πάττων = plate. It is a round metal plate, already used in antiquity.
are also projections of a melancholic contemplation of beauty, and his only novel, *Marius the Epicurean* (1885), serves as a pretext to expound the principles of a refined Epicureanism that stops at the threshold of Christian experience, barely touched by the protagonist, who nonetheless dies almost as a martyr. Such idolatry of beauty as an essential life experience captivated P.’s disciples, notably Oscar Wilde, often degenerating into a more empirical hedonism.