Franco Mormando (born 17 August 1955) is a historian, university professor, and author, focusing on the art, literature, and religious culture of Italy...

monograph, La libertà di Bernini (Turin: Einaudi, 2016) argues and Franco Mormando's anti-hagiographic biography, Bernini: His Life and His Rome (Chicago:...

Mormando is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Franco Mormando (born 1955), Italian historian, university professor, and author Giovanni...

earth and heaven, between matter and spirit". As Bernini biographer Franco Mormando points out, although Bernini's point of departure for his depiction...

polished metal pauldron of the soldier in the centre of the picture, Franco Mormando suggests that it was meant by the artist to serve as a mirror, a mirror...

who was another personal acquaintance of Bernardino's. The historian Franco Mormando notes that "[t]he first works to be produced about Bernardine right...

of traditional ecclesiastical interpretation of that gesture, see Franco Mormando, "Just as your lips approach the lips of your brothers: Judas Iscariot...

Bernini: His Life and His Rome, by Franco Mormando, 2011, p. 9 "La fontana della Barcaccia". 21 March 2015. Franco Mormando, Bernini: His Life and His Rome...

the project remained incomplete. It has been suggested by historian Franco Mormando that Bernini's return to public favor after Innocent's death might...

New Haven / London: Yale University Press, 2012, ISBN 9780300175271. Franco Mormando, tr., The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini by Domenico Bernini, University...

Domenico (2011) [1713]. The Life of Giano Lorenzo Bernini. Trans. and ed. Franco Mormando. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271037486...

own Book of Canon Law, the Pedalion, which, as reported by historian Franco Mormando, "acknowledges the frequently erotic nature of the relationship ritualized...

Saint, ch. 4 in Piety and Plague: from Byzantium to the Baroque, Ed. Franco Mormando, Thomas Worcester Truman State University, 2007, ISBN 978-1-931112-73-4...

discussion of the mouth-to-mouth early Christian kiss of peace, see Franco Mormando, "Just as your lips approach the lips of yours brothers: Judas Iscariot...

Rosalia's popular cult in Italy as a result of the 1624 plague, see Franco Mormando, "Response to the Plague in Early Modern Italy: What the Primary Sources...

stood above the dish in the nude, making magical signs". Historian Franco Mormando refers to an Italian witch: "Lo and behold: in the first hours of sleep...

charge of indecency, see Franco Mormando, 'Did Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa Cross a 17th-century Line of Decorum? (Mormando's answer is yes): [1]. Zirpolo...

from the original on 11 December 2003. Retrieved 22 November 2011. Franco Mormando, The Preacher's Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld...

ISBN 978-9051836035. For Colbert and Bernini in Paris in 1665, see Franco Mormando, Bernini: His Life and His Rome (Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

Edition, with Introduction and Commentary, by Domenico Bernini (Author), Franco Mormando (Translator) (2011) University Park, Penn State Univ. Press. p.379...

Christendom (Revised ed.). University of Chicago Press. pp. 173–174. See Franco Mormando, The Preacher's Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld...

the most recent study of Francis Xavier's canonization process, see Franco Mormando, "The Making of the Second Jesuit Saint: The Campaign for the Canonization...

treatment of this subject in Western European art, see the discussion in Franco Mormando, "Tintoretto's Recently Rediscovered Raising of Lazarus, in The Burlington...

and events leading up to the first modern editions of the book, see Franco Mormando, "Nicephorus and the Battle of the Books Between Catholics and Protestants"...

(2011) [1713]. The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Trans. and ed. by Franco Mormando. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271037486...

cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa, Rome 1794, vol. VI, p. 216-217 Franco Mormando: Bernini: His Life and His Rome, University of Chicago Press, 2011...

no specific historical, moral or narrative meaning. The art scholar Franco Mormando has recently argued that the Plague in an Ancient City depicts a specific...

and professional career, see Franco Mormando, "Domenico Bernini (1657-1723): The Known Facts of His Life" in F. Mormando, Domenico Bernini: The Life of...

detail about Bernardino's lengthy campaign against homosexuality, see Franco Mormando (1999). "Chapter 3: Even The Devil Flees in Horror at the Sight of...

Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0500092710. Bernini, Domenico (2011) [1713]. Franco Mormando (ed.). The Life of Giano Lorenzo Bernini. University Park: Penn State...