Anatomia di un inquisitore. Frate Pietro da Verona-san Pietro martire

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Marina Benedetti (ed)
University of Milan, Italy
ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6829-4768
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/milanoup.194
Keywords: Peter of Verona, saint Peter martyr, Inquisistion, Eresy, Milan in the Middle Age

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This volume investigates the medieval cold case of the murder of inquisitor Peter of Verona (1252), who quickly became Saint Peter Martyr (1253) and the first inquisitor-saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Beyond historiographical myths, the contributions show the developments—sometimes paradoxical—of a death that was instrumental in consolidating the medieval officium fidei.
The multidisciplinary approach demonstrates the richness of possible analyses for examining the past through what has survived: papal letters, fragments of inquisitorial trials, painted and sculpted images, account books, notarial documentation, liturgical texts, sermons, objects—weapons of the crime and coins—and bone remains, namely the skull, connected to one who was immediately considered a "martyr of the faith" whose cult, however, struggled to become established.

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Marina Benedetti, University of Milan, Italy

teaches history of Christianity at the University of Milan. Her research focuses on medieval inquisition and heresy, particularly women's heretical movements (Io non sono Dio. Guglielma di Milano e i Figli dello Spirito santo, Milan 2004; Condannate al silenzio. Le eretiche medievali, Milan 2017). She studies the preservation and transmission of sources between the medieval and modern periods (Il «santo bottino». Circolazione di manoscritti valdesi nell'Europa del Seicento, Turin 2007), implementing this research through editions primarily of inquisitorial trials (Milano 1300. I processi inquisitoriali contro le devote e i devoti di Guglielma, edited by M. Benedetti, Milan 1999; I margini dell'eresia. Indagine su un processo inquisitoriale (Oulx, 1492), Spoleto 2014). She is the editor of Storia del cristianesimo, II: L'età medievale (secoli VIII-XV), Rome 2015 (6th reprint 2020).

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