Translation, introduction and notes by Luigi Leone
Narrator experts and consumers, accurate and sophisticated connoisseur of Greek culture, the Nyssa gave the best of his plastic art and literature in this Life of Gregory Taumaturgo , sublimating and transforming the character through the filter of the ideal of the Gospel lived intensely by ascetics of his time and by him personally. He extols the virtues of the biographer in a series of scenes where it is difficult to reconcile the views of the hagiographic tradition and that of historical criticism, even if it is not impossible to harmonize the facts narrated with the policy of imperial Rome, the history of Christianity and the initial expansion the charismatic power of his missionaries. One thing is certain: the author believes in what he writes and, above all, exposing the virtuous life of the Healer, sent out a message of faith. a jewel of ancient Christian literature. A biography of the drafting of which is owed largely to the oral tradition, but that Nyssa has enriched the art of a great storyteller, selecting and presenting the episodes in a suggestiva.
San Gregorio di Nissa
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