Novità sui Volti Santi di Lucca e Bocca di Magra Chiara Frugoni Chiara Frugoni, one of the most eminent living medievalists, offers an introduction to this section of three essays dedicated to the cult of the famous Volto Santo of Lucca, its origin, prototypes and fortune.
Piero Donati
Sul Volto Santo di Bocca di Magra Piero Donati The imposing wooden Volto Santo, which has been kept near the mouth of the river Magra since the mid-XVII century, does not originate from the one venerated in Lucca, as it is more ancient. Instead, by rereading Boncompagno da Signa’s Rhetorica Antiqua and thanks to numismatics,…
Monica Baldassarri
Il Volto Santo e la monetazione lucchese nel XIII secolo Monica Baldassarri The mint of Lucca, which had the longest production history in the region, was one of the first mints in the central-northern Italy to introduce an iconographic type on its silver coins (the “grossi”) at the beginning of the thirteenth century. It was…
Clario Di Fabio
La Santa Croce dei Lucchesi a Genova: l’immagine di un Volto Santo perduto Clario Di Fabio This paper deals with the spread of the cult of the Volto Santo in Genoa, within the community of Lucchese silk weavers, which from the 13th century had Santa Croce di Sarzano as its own “national church”. In particular,…