Spazi e figure lungo la storia dei Servi di santa Maria (secoli XIII-XX) by Franco Andrea Dal Pino (review)

266book reviews lia, a periodical publication that played an important role in the community of Hungarian expatriates in the postwar years. These essays seem out of place in this volume. The fifth section contains an essay on the architecture of the monastery. Unfortunately , this essay suffers from its superficiality. The appendix contains good-quality photographs of some of the charters addressed in this volume and details of some parts of the monastic complex. The exact purpose of this volume remains nebulous to the reviewer. It is not a collection of scholarly works, though it contains some. It is not a collection of personal reminiscences. It is not a coffee-table book, despite the nice photographs and the glossy paper. The uneven caliber of the essays does little justice to the thousand-year history of the Archabbey of Pannonhalma. Pongrácz Sennyey Bradley University Spazi efigure lungo la storia dei Servi di santa Maria (secoli XIII-XX). By Franco Andrea Dal Pino. [Italia Sacra: Studi e documenti di storia ecclesiastica , Vol. 55.] (Rome: Herder Editrice e Librería. 1997. Pp. xxx, 760. Lire 188.000.) Franco Andrea Dal Pino's historical research and publications on the Servite Order have extended over fifty years, making him the dominant Servite historian of the last half of this century. This volume, published in the Herder's "Italia Sacra" series, collects twenty-one of his more important writings on the history of the Servite Order. He first lists the twenty-one articles, indicating where they were first published, and he notes if any changes have been made in the text. One contribution is entirely new and another has been extensively rewritten; thirteen have some minor revisions in them, while six are presented as they were originally published. It should be added, however, that there is a bibliographical updating at the end of each article, some quite lengthy. There follows a list of his 135 published works, beginning in 1949 and concluding with several which are in the press at the present time. The work is divided into three major sections. "Moments of History" includes a variety of subjects from the early centuries of the Servite Order, Monte Senario, where the Order was founded, editions of the Constitutions, and reform movements. The second section, "Figures noteworthy for holiness, spirituality , and culture," features articles on the Seven Founders of the Servite Order, Blessed Joachim of Siena, Fra Ivo of Siena, Bernardino Ricciolinl, who founded the Hermits of Monte Senario, Fulgenzio Micanzio, who is best known as the first biographer of Paolo Sarpi, and Angelo Maria Montorsoli, a post-Tridentine reformer. There is also his controversial article on St. Juliana Falconieri and his article on the correspondence between Servîtes and the Bollandists in the late BOOK REVIEWS267 seventeenth century. The third section presents the lives and works of three Annalists of the Order: Arcangelo Giani in the seventeenth century, and two of Dal Pino's predecessors as Annalists in the present century: Alessio Rossi and Raffaello Taucci. The work concludes with a detailed name, place, and subject index (pp. 707-760). The major importance of this work is the convenience of finding in one place articles published in different periodicals, some of which are difficult to locate. This reviewer found three contributions which by themselves warrant the rather high price of the book. The first is the first article in the book (pp. 367 ), which is entirely new. It presents for the first time a rapid summary of the history of the Servite Order from its foundation in the thirteenth century to 1431. Dal Pino had already studied quite exhaustively the first century of Servite history,from the foundation to its final papal approval in 1304. But in recent years his position as professor of medieval history at die University of Padua permitted him to direct talented students to investigate the 1300's, which up to the present had remained largely unexplored territory. Their research helped him to present, for the first time, a unified and continuous history of the Servîtes throughout the 1300's, the period of me Western Schism, and then up to the death of Martin V This new article is in Dal...