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„Omnes Viae Romam ducunt”. Peregrynacje do Rzymu w czasach Pierwszego Jubileuszu

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Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

2009

vol. 57

issue (2)

95-114

“All roads lead to Rome” − this ancient maxim reminding us of the Roman Empire’s excellent communication routes still suggests that the Eternal City is the destination of all European quests. Revived after the breakdown of pilgrimages to the Holy Land (after the 1291 fall of Acre), these quests also mentally transferred the Celestial Jerusalem to the area of River Tiber. The renewal of the quests was motivated by sanctioning the purgatory and consequently indulgence as the promise of quick salvation of the souls of dead kin from the “third place”. Human economy was thus inscribed in the economy of salvation, with Rome becoming the aim for pilgrims wanting to receive indulgence, and plenary indulgence − in particular (plenissima venia peccatorum), i.e. the absolution of sins which up till that moment only crusaders cherished. This indulgence could be granted only to those arriving in Rome in the Jubilee Holy Year of 1300 when Pope Boniface VIII revived the idea of the Great Jubilee. The article presents historical and theological conditionings of the penitential quest to Rome. It also characterizes the road net pertaining to the pilgrimages in question, in particular Via Francigena, only to reconstruct the figure of pilgrim as peregrinating first to Rome and later, within the city, following the so-called Seven Basilicas Route. This anthropological description closes with the review of the oldest guides to the Eternal City, which propose Roman itineraries based on the existence of material symbols of Rome’s ancient greatness.

Metamorfozy miejsca. Mechanizm przemiany wyobrażeń o przestrzeni Rzymu w średniowieczu

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Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

2013

issue 3(6) cz.2

89-100

The longevity of items and objects of architecture favours changes in their function. What remains is the memory of a place and works of art, which charge a given space with emotions. In human awareness, they lay the foundations of cultural identity. The memory in question has accumulated both in the works of visual art and in writings, delivering a testimony to the transformations of the image of Rome. Therefore, the present article covers the essential artistic and cartographic images of medieval Rome, instances of mythologisation and metamorphoses of space, as well as the city’s history as viewed through the prism of art. The evoked and discussed historic literary sources include Mirabilia Urbis Romae, or a collection of silva rerum tales by Giovanni Rucellai, Il zibaldone quaresimale (a record of a journey to obtain indulgence undertaken in 1450). Literary metamorphoses are interpreted in the context of the findings of art history. In a similar manner, changes in the imagined vision of Rome are laid out on the example of a cycle of 15th-century paintings by Hans Holbein the Elder, Hans Burgkmair and Master who signed with initials L.F. Executed for a monastery in Augsburg, the cycle presented seven station churches and was a kind of biblia pauperum, which adopted the orm of a painted story of a pilgrimage to Rome. The cycle proved to become a fostering and building force behind the process of spiritual metamorphosis of the place carried out by visual means.

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„Omnes Viae Romam ducunt”. Peregrynacje do Rzymu w czasach Pierwszego Jubileuszu

Metamorfozy miejsca. Mechanizm przemiany wyobrażeń o przestrzeni Rzymu w średniowieczu