Angelitus vivere. Pier Damiani e la perfezione eremitica

Abstract

This essay analyses Peter Damian’s idea of perfection, by taking into account his texts devoted to the eremitic conversatio avellanita: in particular, Epistles 18, 50, and 109. It answers to the following working question: how is it possible to achieve an ‘angelic’ condition? Particular attention is paid to the ideas of time, space and ascesis.

Keywords

• ascesis
• peter damian
• eremitical life
• time
• fonte avellana
• conversatio