Benedictine abbey of San Sisto at Piacenza. It has no connection with the *Sistine Chapel. M. Putscher, Raphaels Sixtinische Madonna (Tübingen, 1955). L. Dussler, Raphael: A Critical Catalogue (1971; rev. Eng. It. of work pub. in Munich, 1966), pp. 36–8, with plate 83. (Ger., ‘place in life’). A term used particularly in biblical criticism, to signify the circumstances (most often in the life of a community) in which a particular story, saying, etc., was either created or preserved
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