Devozione e carità. Educazione cristiana ed edificazione dell’immagine della Verona sancta nel secondo Cinquecento

In the process of renewal regarding Catholic Europe in the decades immediately following the Council of Trent, the numerous confraternities and charitable and welfare institutions, which animated in particular urban environments, represented the major vehicles for the sanctification of the faithful. With this in mind, the Verona of the second half of the sixteenth century appears as a unique laboratory of experiences and initiatives, which – thanks to the wise direction of Bishop Agostino Valier – offered the image of a holy city, able to develop and reinvent different Christian educational paths and one more responsive to the needs of the varied and changing secular society. Thanks to a rich repertoire of sources and the most recent scientific literature, a detailed analysis is offered of such confraternities and charitable organizations, in particular shedding light on a little-known case study which is of great interest due to its paradigmatic nature