Ovidio Capitani

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Ovidio Capitani (born January 1, 1930 in Cairo , † March 17, 2012 in Bologna ) was an Italian historian of medieval history.

Ovidio Capitani spent his childhood in Cairo. He received his doctorate in 1954 from Raffaello Morghen in Rome on the doctrine of the Eucharist of Berengar von Tours . Capitani was editor of the publication of the prestigious Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani at the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana . His habilitation took place in Rome in 1959. Capitani taught from 1959 to 1968 as a professor at the University of Lecce . He then taught for 35 years as the successor to Eugenio Dupré Theseider as professor of medieval history until his retirement in 2003 at the University of Bologna . From 1988 to 1997 he was President of the Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo in Spoleto and President of the Accademia delle Scienze in Bologna. In 1990 he became a corresponding member and in 2001 a full member ( socio nazionale ) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome. In 2003 a two-volume commemorative publication was dedicated to him. Since 2006 he has been a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Capitani was also a corresponding member of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica .

The main research areas of Capitani were the European High Middle Ages and above all canon law and the change in the understanding of the Church and the world from the 11th to the 13th centuries, the early history of the Italian city, the education of universities, turning points in papal history and methodological questions in historical studies . His main works were a presentation on the medieval history of Italy ( Storia dell'Italia medievale. 410-1216 ), first published in 1986 and since then published several times, and the book Medievistica e medievisti nel secondo Novecento (2003). In addition, he published the Studi medievali . Capitani published numerous studies on Pope Gregory VII. In a fundamental essay, he criticized the view of a Gregorian age that is still widespread today .

Fonts (selection)

  • La lettera di Goffredo II Martello conte d'Angiò a Ildebrando (1059). In: Studi Gregoriani 5 (1956), pp. 19–31.
  • La 'venditio ad terminum' nella valutazione morale di S. Tommaso d'Aquino e di Remigio de 'Girolami. In: Bollettino dell'Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo 70 (1958), pp. 299-363.
  • Studi su Berengario di Tours. Lecce 1966.
  • Medioevo passato prossimo. Appunti storiografici. Tra due guerre e molte crisi. Bologna 1979.
  • Una economia politica nel Medioevo. Bologna 1987.
  • Storia dell'Italia medievale, 410-1216. 5th edition, Rome 1999.
  • Medievistica e medievisti nel secondo Novecento. Ricordi, rassegne, interpretazioni. Spoleto 2003, ISBN 88-7988-240-6 .
  • Gregorio VII: il papa epitome della Chiesa di Roma. Published by Berardo Pio , Spoleto 2015, ISBN 978-88-6809-040-1 .

literature

  • Peter Landau : Ovidio Capitani 1.1.1930–17.3.2012. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Yearbook 2012, Munich 2013, p. 175. ( PDF file online )
  • NN: Appreciation of the new members: Ovidio Capitani. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Yearbook 2006, Munich 2007, pp. 145 f.
  • Maria Consiglia De Matteis : Ovidio Capitani. Quaranta anni per la storia medioevale. 2 vols., Pàtron Editore, Bologna 2003, ISBN 88-555-2708-8 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Ovidio Capitani: "? Esiste un 'eta gregoriana" Considerazioni sulle tendenze di una storiografia medievistica , in: Rivista di Storia e Letteratura religiosa 1 (1965), pp 454-481.
personal data
SURNAME Capitani, Ovidio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 2012
Place of death Bologna