Giuseppe Ricciotti
Giuseppe Ricciotti | |
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Born | 27 February 1890 Rome |
Died | 22 January 1964 (aged 73) Rome |
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Occupation | Scholar and priest |
Giuseppe Ricciotti
Life
Ricciotti was born in Rome on 27 February 1890.
During World War I he was required to interrupt his studies and to perform military service, during which time he served as a military chaplain,[3] volunteering for service at the front lines, and was afterwards awarded a Silver Medal of Military Valor for his service in the trenches, where he was seriously wounded. Because of this experience, he came to oppose any kind of war.
After the war, Ricciotti resumed his studies and graduated in 1919 with a degree in
In 1935 he was appointed
Giuseppe Ricciotti died in Rome on 22 January 1964.[3]
Works
Ricciotti's first important work is Storia d'Israele (English: History of Israel), published in 1932.
The period in which he worked was one of deep suspicion of Biblical Studies in Italy. As a result, Ricciotti was partially involved in the late stages of the
His masterpiece is Vita di Gesù Cristo (English: Life of Jesus Christ), edited in 1941 and published many times. The scholar Nicolotti writes: "His works on biblical texts, of a rather conservative character, show a solid historical and philological training, not at all alien to the contemporary acquisitions of the critic."
Legacy
Ricciotti's book Vita di Gesù Cristo ("Life of Jesus Christ") was extremely popular and influential in Italy, selling 40.000 copies in its first edition and being praised by the Royal Academy of Italy; even Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini read a copy of the book.[8] It has been re-printed several times and can still be easily found in Italian libraries and bookstores even today.[9] It was also greatly praised by Catholic peer journals of that time,[10][11][12][13][14][15] but received strong criticism from excommunicated modernist Catholic Ernesto Buonaiuti.[16]
Over the time, however, the book received criticism by later Catholic scholars: writing on Il Sole 24 ORE, Italian Catholic cardinal and biblical scholar Gianfranco Ravasi noted that the text was not "not immune to many apologetic simplifications".[17] Catholic biblical scholar Giulio Michelini OFM also noted that Ricciotti's book shows many of the flaws of Catholic scholars of the time: a tendency towards gospel harmony, vehement and excessive attacks toward Protestant scholarship (especially Rudolf Bultmann), insufficient knowledge of Second Temple Judaism and even some anti-Jewish interpretation of the Gospels (see blood curse).[18] Catholic scholar Giuseppe Segalla, while praising the book for its style of writing, categorized it as an apologetic work.[19]
Despite this, Ricciotti's work is still widely appreciated by Italian conservative Catholics like Vittorio Messori and Luca Doninelli.[20][21]
References
- ^ a b c Nicolotti, Andrea. "Giuseppe Ricciotti". Christianismus.it. Retrieved 24 August 2009.
- ^ Enciclopedia Italiana(in Italian). Treccani. 1949. II Appendix.
- ^ a b "E' morto a Roma l'abate Ricciotti". La Stampa (in Italian). 23 January 1964. p. 14. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
- JSTOR 43720016.
- ^ Joseph Clifford Fenton (1947). "Review of The Life of Christ by Giuseppe Ricciotti". American Ecclesiastical Review. 117: 474.
- ^ Leo J. Trese (1947). "Review of The Life of Christ by Giuseppe Ricciotti". Commonweal. 46: 579.
- S2CID 201783724.
- ^ Pertici, Roberto (26 January 2011). "E Mussolini lesse (inutilmente) la "Vita di Gesù Cristo"". L'Osservatore Romano (in Italian).
- Mondadori(in Italian).
- JSTOR 45078443.
- JSTOR 43720016.
- ^ Fenton, Joseph Clifford (1947). "Review of The Life of Christ by Giuseppe Ricciotti". American Ecclesiastical Review. 117: 474.
- ^ Trese, Leo J. (1947). "Review of The Life of Christ by Giuseppe Ricciotti". Commonweal. 46: 579.
- JSTOR 41974307.
- JSTOR 40947773.
- ^ Buonaiuti, Ernesto (1941). "Una nuova Vita di Cristo". Nuova Rivista Storica. 25 (1): 118–120.
- ^ Ravasi, Gianfranco (31 March 1991). "Il teologo Zahrnt tenta la "impossibile possibilità" di una ricostruzione della storia di Cristo". Il Sole 24 Ore.
- ^ Michelini, Giulio (2005). "La Vita di Gesù Cristo di Giuseppe Ricciotti". Convivium Assisiense. 1: 225–238.
- ISBN 978-88-399-0845-2.
- ^ "Messori: "Seguendo Pascal sono giunto a Lourdes" – Vittorio Messori" (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-09-19.
- ^ Doninelli, Luca (23 January 2000). "Come scoprire il vero Gesù Cristo. Recensione a Vita di Gesù Cristo di Giuseppe Ricciotti". Il Giornale.
External links
- Giuseppe Ricciotti (1947). The Life Of Christ. Translated by Alba I. Zizzamia. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company.
- Nicolotti, Andrea (2016). "RICCIOTTI, Giuseppe". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Rev. Bernard Hrico (19 August 1960). "Ricciotti retells story of early Church in Julian the Apostate". The Catholic Standard & Times. Vol. 65, no. 48.