SERVASANTO da FAENZA. - Franciscan theologian and preacher, b. at Oriolo (Faenza) in the first half of the 13th century, d. probably at Florence around 1300. He entered the Order at Bologna, where he completed his studies and was ordained a priest between 1244 and 1260. He preached in various regions of Italy, but especially in Tuscany and at Florence.
His principal works are: Summa or Liber de exemplis naturalibus, divided into three books treating respectively of faith, of the Sacraments, and of the virtues and vices (unpublished, with the exception of the prologue and the index of chapters); Summa de paenitentia (Louvain 1485 under the title Antidatarium animae), regarded by the author himself as a supplement to the preceding work and intended exclusively for preachers; Summa or Liber de virtutibus et vitiis (unpublished, except for a few extracts), composed probably at Florence (around 1277-85) as an expansion, intended for preachers, of the third book of the Summa de exemplis naturalibus; a Mariale or Liber de laudibus beatae Mariae (unpublished), in which, following the Mariale of St. Albert the Great, he applies to the Virgin all the good qualities of creation and the figures of the Old Testament. Several cycles of sermons are also attributed to him: Sermones de proprio Sanctorum (published among the works of St. Bonaventure, III, Rome 1596, pp. 237-322); Sermones de communi Sanctorum (ibid., pp. 323-406); Sermones de festivitatibus B. M. V. (cf. ibid., 387a and 391a). At the beginning of the 14th century Bono Giamboni made a collection of these sermons and translated them into Italian under the title Della miseria dell'umana generazione (in Trattati morali, Florence 1836). The works of S., regarded as the greatest moralist of the 13th century, have particular value for the anecdotal genre.
Bibliography8 worksSbaralea, III, pp. 98 ff.; B. Knutwogen, De summa de paenitentia von S., in Neerlandia franciscana, 2 (1919), pp. 56-66; id., Das Antidatari
BIBL.: Sbaralea, III, pp. 98 ff.; B. Knutwogen, De summa de paenitentia von S., in Neerlandia franciscana, 2 (1919), pp. 56-66; id., Das Antidatarium animae von S., in Wiegendrache und Handschriften, Festgabe K. Haebler, Leipzig 1919, pp. 80-106; M. Grabmann, Der « Liber de exemplis naturalibus » des Franziskanertheologen S., in Franziskanische Studien, 7 (1920), pp. 85-117; L. Oliger, S. da F. ed il suo « Liber de virtutibus et vitiis », in Miscellanea F. Ehrle, I, Rome 1924, pp. 148-89; A. Teetaert, s. v. in DThC, XIV, coll. 1063-67 (with bibl.). For the influence of S. on later authors cf.: F. Eismenis, Tag del Cristia, Barcelona 1902, p. 13 ff.; G. Bertoni, Il Duecento, Milan 1930, pp. 328-29, 335-36, 358-59; I. Squadrani, Tractatus de luxe fr. Bartholomae de Bononia, in Antonianum, 7 (1932), pp. 215 and passim.
Melani, Gaudenzio. “Servasanto da Faenza.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, coll. 403–404. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/servasanto-da-faenza.
MLA
Melani, Gaudenzio. “Servasanto da Faenza.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, coll. 403–404. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/servasanto-da-faenza.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec11_servasanto_da_faenza,
author = {Melani, Gaudenzio},
title = {Servasanto da Faenza},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XI},
pages = {403--404},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/servasanto-da-faenza}
}
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