Planctus Mariae nella sua funzione di exemplum

The essay deals with Planctus Mariae a religious literature’s product that is utilized as pattern to cultivate the mass and to affirm the death’s ideology proposed by Christianity and different from death’s idea by the ancient world. Christianity spread and maintained a different way of crying the dead. Mater dolorosa is one of holy week’s principal ritual figures; these rites imposed themselves within the catholic religion beginning from Middle Ages. To analyze Planctus Mariae we consider the works by Ernesto de Martino, Paolo Toschi and Alfonso M. Di Nola