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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The book investigates the medieval cold case of the murder of the inquisitor Peter ofVerona (1252), who quickly became saint Peter martyr (1253) and the first inquisitor-saintof the Roman Catholic Church. Beyond historiographical myths, the essays show thedevelopments – sometimes paradoxical – of a death that was an important step toconsolidate the medieval
officium fidei
.
The multidisciplinary approach demonstrates the rich possibility of analyses of the pastthrough what survived: papal letters, fragments of inquisitorial trials, painted and sculptedimages, account books, notarial documentation, liturgical texts, sermons, objects –weapons of the crime and coins – and bone remains, namely the skull, of whom wasimmediately considered a "martyr of the faith" whose cult, however, had some difficultiesto be established.

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Marina Benedetti, University of Milan, Italy

Marina Benedetti is Full Professor in History of Christianity at the StateUniversity of Milan (Italy). She first studied the case of Guglielma and then she devotedherself to broader themes related with heresy and inquisition (Condannate al silenzio. Leeretiche medievali, Milano 2017; Inquisitori Lombardi del Duecento, Roma 2008;Medioevo inquisitoriale. Manoscritti, protagonisti, paradossi, 2021). She works also inthe field of the medieval Waldenses (Donne valdesi nel medioevo, Torino 2007; Valdesimedievali. Bilanci e prospettive di ricerca, edited by M. Benedetti, Torino 2009; ACompanion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages, with E. Cameron, 2022) focusing ontextual transmission with special regard to the religious debate in XVIIth century Europe(Il «santo bottino». Circolazione di manoscritti valdesi nell'Europa del Seicento, Torino20072), but also on the edition of inquisitorial trials (I margini dell’eresia. Indagine su unprocesso inquisitoriale (Oulx, 1492), Spoleto 20142; La valle dei valdesi. I processicontro Tommaso Guiot, sarto di Pragelato (Oulx, 1495), Spoleto 2013). She edited Storiadel cristianesimo, II: L’età medievale (secoli VIII-XV), Roma, (7th reprint 2022), 2023("Quality Paperbacks"), and Eretiche ed eretici medievali. La «disobbedienza» religiosanei secc. XII-XV, 2023. For Milano UP she published also Contro frate Bernardino daSiena. Processi al maestro Amedeo Landi (Milan 1437-1447), with T. Danelli, 2021.

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