Giovanni Vitolo

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Giovanni Vitolo (* 1948 in Salerno ) is an Italian historian . Vitolo taught as Professor of Medieval History at the University of Naples Federico II . He is a recognized expert on the history of Campania .

Live and act

Giovanni Vitolo completed his studies at the University of Naples Federico II. After teaching and research activities at the University of Naples, he became the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Chieti-Pescara "Gabriele d'Annunzio" in 1986 . Three years later he became Professor of Medieval History at the University of Naples Federico II. He was President of the Società salernitana di storia patria . He is a member of the Accademia Pontaniana and the Accademia di scienze morali e politiche in Naples. He is Vice President of the Società Napoletana di Storia Patria , whose collection of documents was digitized for monasterium.net , for which he was particularly committed as a member of the scientific committee. A three-volume commemorative publication with over 1500 pages was dedicated to him in 2018.

His early works deal with the history of monasticism, ecclesiastical institutions and religious associations of the laity. He also researched the history of the agricultural landscape and the organization of the area. He collected data for the development of a historical map of Campania and a dictionary of medieval cities.

Between 1978 and 1980 Vitolo published several studies on the brotherhoods of southern Italy, which since the study by Gennaro Maria Monti (1927) were assessed as being of little importance compared to northern and central Italy, and thus hardly explored . He dealt with two brotherhoods from Salerno and Benevento as well as the spread of lay penance brotherhoods in the Mezzogiorno . In doing so, he relied largely on unedited source material from archives in southern Italy. He edited the source of the Codex of the Brotherhood of S. Maria de Montefusco from the 12th century, which is now in Neapolitan possession. This opened up an important source for the ecclesiastical organization of the rural clergy and lay people. Through his work, he made an important contribution to the study of religious movements in medieval southern Italy. With Rosalba Di Meglio , he published a presentation in 2003 on the hospitals and hospital fraternities of Naples. The starting point for this were some newly discovered documents from the 13th and 15th centuries in early modern copies or in archives outside Naples. This made it possible to revise some of the legends circulating in local historiography. He also devoted himself to the history of science. He was the editor of an anthology on Bartolommeo Capasso and erudition in Naples in the 19th century. Numerous studies examined the origins of the Salerno Medical School.

Vitolo is a leading expert on the Cava Abbey and its archives. The collection of documents of the Cava Abbey comprised around 15,000 documents from the 9th to the 19th century, making it unique in southern Italy. In 1873 the monks started with the Codex diplomaticus Cavensis . Volumes I to VIII cover the period 792 to 1065 with almost 1400 documents. The project came to a standstill in 1893. It was not until 1984 and 1990 that Vitolo, together with the monastery archivist Don Simeone, edited two further volumes of the Codex diplomaticus Cavensis . The documents are now available in edited form up to 1080. In the ninth volume, 137 pieces from the years between 1065 and 1072 were published and commented on. In the tenth volume, 144 documents from the years 1073 to 1080 were edited. The edition of the documents led to numerous accompanying source publications. In a study published in 1984, he saw the transfer of numerous monasteries and churches in Puglia to the Abbey of Cava not as a Norman program to relatinize the monasteries of Puglia, but as a measure by the church reformers against the independent church system . The second part of the presentation deals with the history of the individual possessions of Cavas in Capitanata , Terra di Bari and Terra d'Otranto , the three regions of Apulia , based on mostly unedited sources . In a case study, Vitolo showed how more and more ownership of the Church of San Nicola di Gallocanta passed to the Abbey of Cava. However, he rejects the common hypothesis that, according to the concept of church politics, the Normans systematically subordinated the Greek monasteries to Benedictine abbeys. In the specific case, the Normans cannot speak of an anti-Greek policy. The 1000th anniversary of the founding of Cava Abbey in 2011 gave new impetus. Four years later, Vitolo published volumes XI and XII covering the years 1081-1090 in collaboration with archivist Leone Morinelli and Carmine Carlone. In total, the edition of 255 (103 and 152) certificates is offered in full text with extensive registers . The edition is an important resource for the history of southern Italy and the history of its church institutions.

In recent years Vitolo has published numerous studies on cities in the south of the Apennine peninsula in the high and late medieval times. The essays published between 1998 and 2009 were published in 2014, partly expanded and supplemented by two new chapters in one volume. He was the editor of an anthology dealing with case studies with the transformation from the late Roman to the early medieval city. The contributions go back to a 2004 conference of the inter-university center for the history of the cities of Campania in the Middle Ages. From 2011 to 2013 he was the national coordinator of the PRIN project (progetti di rilevante interesst nazionale) “Organization of the territory, occupation of the land and perception of space in the medieval south (XIII – XV centuries). Information systems for a new historical cartography ”.

Fonts (selection)

A list of publications appeared in: Francesco Li Pira: Bibliografia di Giovanni Vitolo. In: Bruno Figliuolo, Rosalba Di Meglio, Antonella Ambrosio (eds.): Ingenita curiositas. Studi sull'Italia medievale per Giovanni Vitolo. Volume 1-3. Laveglia & Carlone, Battipaglia 2018, pp. 13–29.

Source editions

  • with Carmine Carlone and Leone Morinelli: Codex diplomaticus Cavensis. Nunc primum in lucem editus. Volume XI (1081-1085), Volume XII (1086-1090). (= Fonti per la storia del Mezzogiorno medievale. Vol. 24-25). Laveglia & Carlone, Battipaglia 2015, ISBN 978-88-86854-28-3 , ISBN 978-88-86854-31-3 .
  • with Simeone Leone: Codex diplomaticus Cavensis. Volume IX (1065-1072). Badia di Cava, Salerno 1984, Volume X (1073-1080), ibid 1990.

Monographs

  • L'Italia delle altre città. Un'immagine del Mezzogiorno medievale (= Nuovo Medioevo. Volume 101). Liguori, Naples 2014, ISBN 978-88-207-5247-7 .
  • Insediamenti Cavensi in Puglia. Congedo, Galatina 1984.
  • Istituzioni ecclesiastiche e vita religiosa dei laici nel Mezzogiorno medievale. Il Codice della Confraternità di S. Maria di Montefusco (= Italia sacra. Volume 34). Herder, Rome 1982.

Editorships

  • Bartolommeo Capasso. Storia, filologia, erudizione nella Napoli dell'Ottocento (= Storici e storia. Volume 6). Guida, Naples 2005, ISBN 88-7188-784-0 .
  • Città e contado nel mezzogiorno tra medioevo ed età moderna (= Centro interuniversitario per la storia delle città campane nel medioevo. Quaderni. Volume 1). Laveglia, Salerno 2005, ISBN 88-88773-96-7 .
  • Le città campane fra tarda antichità e alto medioevo (= Centro interuniversitario per la storia delle città campane nel medioevo. Quaderni. Volume 2). Laveglia, Salerno 2005, ISBN 88-88773-82-7 .

literature

  • Bruno Figliuolo, Rosalba Di Meglio, Antonella Ambrosio (eds.): Ingenita curiositas. Studi sull'Italia medievale per Giovanni Vitolo. Volume 1-3. Laveglia & Carlone, Battipaglia 2018, ISBN 978-88-86854-68-9 . (Digital copies on fedOA : Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 )

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Consiglio direttivo on the Società website.
  2. ^ Project history at the Società; Home on mom-ca .
  3. ^ Gennaro Maria Monti: Le confraternite medievali dell'alta e media Italia. Venice 1927.
  4. ^ Giovanni Vitolo: Istituzioni ecclesiastiche e vita religiosa dei laici nel Mezzogiorno medievale. Il Codice della Confraternità di S. Maria di Montefusco. Rome 1982. Cf. the reviews of Herbert Schneider in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. Volume 40, 1984, p. 662 (online) ; Peter Höhler in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. Volume 63, 1983, p. 463 (online) ; Hubert Houben in: Historical magazine. Volume 237, 1983, pp. 426-427.
  5. ^ Giovanni Vitolo, Rosalba Di Meglio: Napoli angioino-aragonese. Confraternite ospedali dinamiche politico-sociali. Salerno 2003. Cf. Thomas Frank's reviews in sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. Volume 66, 1986, p. 527 (online) ; Anna Rita Longo in: Rivista di storia della Chiesa in Italia. 60, 2006, pp. 181-186; Sergio Tognetti in: Archivio Storico Italiano 162, 2004, pp. 397-398.
  6. ^ Giovanni Vitolo (Ed.): Bartolommeo Capasso. Storia, filologia, erudizione nella Napoli dell'Ottocento. Naples 2005.
  7. ^ Giovanni Vitolo: Origine e sviluppi istituzionali della Scuola. In: Italo Gallo Salerno e la sua Scuola Medica. Naples 2008, pp. 19-54; Giovanni Vitolo: La Scuola Medica Salernitana come metafora della storia del Mezzogiornio. In: Danielle Jacquart, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (ed.): La scuola medica salernitana: gli autori ei testi: convegno internazionale Università degli Studi di Salerno, 3 - 5 November 2004. Florence 2007, pp. 535–559.
  8. ↑ Hubert Houben: The Venosa Abbey and monasticism in the Norman-Staufer southern Italy. Tübingen 1995, p. 7.
  9. ↑ Cf. the review by Vera von Falkenhausen in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. Volume 66, 1986, p. 527 (online) ; Hans Martin Schaller in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. Volume 42, 1986, pp. 646-647 (online)
  10. ↑ See the discussion by Ulrich Schwarz in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. Volume 72, 1992, pp. 794-795 (online)
  11. ↑ See the reviews of Vera von Falkenhausen in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. Volume 66, 1986, p. 527 (online) ; Hans Martin Schaller in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. Volume 41, 1985, p. 690 (online)
  12. ↑ Giovanni Vitolo: La latinizzazione dei monasteri Italo-greci del Mezzogiorno medievale. L'esempio di S. Nicola di Gallocanta presso Salerno. In: Benedictina. Volume 29, 1982, pp. 437-450. Cf. the review by Vera von Falkenhausen in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. Volume 64, 1984, p. 564 (online)
  13. ↑ See the review by Thomas Hofmann in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. Volume 96, 2016, pp. 698–699 (online)
  14. ^ Giovanni Vitolo: L'Italia delle altre città. Un'immagine del Mezzogiorno medievale. Naples 2014. See the reviews of Uwe Israel in: Historische Zeitschrift. Volume 303, 2016, pp. 856-857; Mario Marrocchi in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. Volume 96, 2016, pp. 548-550.
  15. ^ Giovanni Vitolo: Le città campane fra tarda antichità e alto medioevo. Salerno 2005. See the review by Christian Rohr in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. Volume 64, 2008, pp. 373–374 (online)
personal data
SURNAME Vitolo, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Salerno