NOTES
1.
On problems of categorization, see
Richard C. Trexler, "Reverence and Profanity in the Study of Early Modern Religion," in Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe,
1500-1800 ed.
Kaspar von Greyerz ( London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984), 246ff.
2.
On the unfortunate effects of such terminology on the serious study of religion
and ritual, see
Mary Douglas, Natural Symbols ( New York: Vintage Press, 1979), chap. I.
3.
On the Florentine Academy, see
Arnaldo della Torre, Storia dell'Accademia Platonica ( Florence: G. Carnesecchi, 1902), 354ff.
4.
On lay Florentine confraternal sermons, see P. O. Kristeller, "Lay Religious Traditions and Florentine Platonism," in Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters ( Rome: Storia
e letteratura, 1969), 103-6; Eugenio Garin, "Desideri di riforma nell'oratoria del quattrocento," Belfagor ( 1948), reprinted in Garin, La cultura filosofica del Rinascimento italiano ( Florence: Sansoni, 1979), 166-82; Rab Hatfield, "The Company of the Magi," Journal of the Warburg and
Courtauld Institutes 33 ( 1972): 124ff.; G. M. Monti, Le confraternite medievali dell'alta e media Italia
( Venice: La Nuova Italia, 1927), 1:187ff., 2:108-9. Charles Trinkaus, In Our Image and Likeness:
Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought, 2 vols. ( Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1970), 638-50, examined two humanist sermons, those by Cristoforo Landino and Donato Acciaiuoli, delivered to the Company of the Magi.
5.
Kristeller, "Lay Religious Traditions,"116.
6.
A. Chastel, Art et humanisme à Florence au temps de Laurent le Magnifique ( Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1961), 198, 246-47.
7.
The principal manuscript collections include Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence,
MS. 2204 (hereafter BRF 2204), and Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze (hereafter BNF),
Magl. XXV.211. Nesi's sermons have been published by Cesare Vasoli, "Giovanni Nesi tra Donato Acciaiuoli Girolamo Savonarola," Memorie domenicane 4 ( 1973): 103-79. Machiavelli's penitential oration was published in Niccolò Machiavelli, Tutte le opere ( Florence: Sansoni, 1929), 778-80. Three of four sermons written by Poliziano have been published in I. del Lungo, Prose
volgari inedite e poesie latine e greche edite e inedite di Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano ( Florence, 1867), 3-16. The sermons of Alamanno Rinuccini have been published by Vito Giustiniani, Alamanno
Rinuccini: Lettere ed orazioni ( Florence: Sansoni, 1953), 22-23, 46-47, 145-62, 185-87. The surviving sermons represent a small fraction of the total number likely to have been delivered
by lay Florentines to confraternities. The statutes of many confraternities required annual sermons on such occasions as Holy Thursday, but sermons survive for only a few confraternities.
On sermon requirements, see, for example, the statutes of the Compagnia di S. Paolo, Archivio
di Stato di Firenze, Compagnie Religiose Soppresse (hereafter ASF CRS), Capitoli, 29.
8.
See
Ronald F. E. Weissman, Ritual Brotherhood in Renaissance Florence ( New York: Academic Press, 1982), chap. 4, for 2 description concerning elite participation in confraternities.
9.
On Nesi, see
Vasoli, "Giovanni Nesi,"103-22.
10.
Della Torre, Storia, 387-89.
12.
Weissman, Ritual Brotherhood, 171-72.
13.
On Donato's membership of the Company of S. Girolamo, a flagellant com
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