Testi confraternali e 'memoria' della passione a Brescia fra Tre e Quattrocento : il 'Planctus Virginis Mariae' e la 'Sententia finalis iudicii' dei Disciplini di San Cristoforo

This paper highlights the recent discovery of two ancient Brescian texts, conserved in the same manuscript already examined by Gianfranco Contini in 1935 (Archivio Storico di Brescia, fondo Ospedale, Bonelli, busta 99). Both texts, a ‘Planctus Beatae Virginis’ and a ‘Sententia finalis iudicii’, formed, along with the already known ‘Cum fo tradith el nos Segnor’, the Holy Thursday’s office of the Archconfraternity of San Cristopher. The work offers an edition and a linguistic analysis of such documents and furnishes a critical and dramaturgical study on the functions and the para-liturgical contexts in which they were performed by the Company’s members.