Per uno studio della biografia monastica benedettina in età umanistica. La Vita inedita di Gomes Eanes, abate portoghese della Badia Fiorentina (prima metà del XV secolo)

In 1443 Tommaso Salvetti, lawyer of the abbey known as Badia Fiorentina, wrote a biography of the Portuguese abbot Gomes Eanes. Although it was unpublished, that work soon became a pool of information for every account on Gomes Eanes as well as on the monastery. The text is preserved in the ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 885. This paper offers the edition of the Vita and an analysis of its content, outlining the role of the Benedictine abbot in both the fifteenth-century Italian monastic world and his connections with the Duke of Coimbra, Pedro, to whom the biography was dedicated.