- Italian Renaissance Art, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance literature, Volgarizzamenti Nel Cinquecento, Renaissance antiquarianism, Renaissance Literature (Renaissance Studies), and 111 moreRenaissance, Censorship, Rinascimento, Filologia Italiana Letteratura Italiana del Rinascimento, Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Accademia Fiorentina, Pirro Ligorio, Vincenzio Borghini, Giorgio Vasari, Reformation Studies, Translation Studies, Reformation History, The Classical Tradition, Translation, Iconography, Renaissance Iconography, Food History, Philology, Art Theory, Art History, Art, Early Modern History, Renaissance Philosophy, Renaissance Art, Philosophy of Art, Dante Studies, Petrarch, Classical Tradition in Art and Literature, Vergil, Filologia dantesca, The Reception of Vergil, Translation of classical and medieval texts in modern languages, Cultural History, Classical Archaeology, Theatre Studies, History of Ideas, Fashion design, Theatre History, Fashion Theory, Dress Studies, History of Dress, Textiles, Cultural Heritage, History and Classical tradition studies, Applied Theatre, History of Costume, Fashion History, Renaissance drama, Costume (Art History), Antiquarianism, Clothing Culture, Clothing, Iconography and Iconology, Archaeological textiles and clothing, Clothes Collections, Fashion, Symbolism, Iconology, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, History of Antiquarianism, Numismatics, Ancient Coins, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Georgius Agricola, Fortune, Humanities, Greek Literature, Italian Humanism, Classical philology, Philosophy Of Language, Languages and Linguistics, Etymology, Linguistics, History of Italian Language, Language and Etymology, Cultural Studies, Renaissance Rome, Humanism, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Images and history, Teatro, Fontainebleau, Theatre Arts, History of clothing and fashion, Italian Medieval and Renaissance Theatre and Spectacle, Clothes, Renaissance France, Dressing, Italian Renaissance literature, Symbolism (Religion), Visual Culture, Mythology, Roman Footwear and Shoemaking, Antiquaria e collezionismo, Early Modern Political Thought, Lucretius, Niccolò Machiavelli, Epicureanism, Antiquarianism in the seventeenth century, Shoes, Italian philology, Early Modern Science, Epistolography, Plautus, History of Atomism, Machiavelli, New Testament, Bible Translation, and Renaissance Studiesedit
Treviso: ZeL Edizioni, 2022
Research Interests: Iconography, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance Art, Biblical Studies, and 13 moreNew Testament and Christian Origins, Medieval And Humanistic Philology, Antiquarianism, Christian Iconography, Renaissance antiquarianism, Biblical Exegesis, Iconografy of Last Supper, Greek Philology, New testament exegesis, New Testament Studies, Counter-Reformation art, Counter-Reformation, and Biblical Philology
[Lexis Supplements 6] Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2022
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Canterano (RM): Aracne, 2018
Research Interests: Iconography, Art History, Censorship, Art, Art Theory, and 35 moreEarly Modern History, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Renaissance Philosophy, Renaissance Art, Philosophy of Art, The Grotesque Body, Early Modern Europe, History of Art, Italian Renaissance Art, Renaissance literature, Italian Renaissance literature, Antiquarianism, Visual Arts, Christian Iconography, Renaissance antiquarianism, Bakhtin carnival and the grotesque body, Antiquarianism in the sixteenth century, Fifteenth and Sixteenth century culture, Iconography and Iconology, Iconografia, Etimology, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Counter-Reformation art, Grotesque, Pirro Ligorio, Counter-Reformation, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Sixteenth Century History, Lo Grotesco, Arte Della Controriforma, Sixteenth Century, Grotteschi, and Gabriele Paleotti
Research Interests: Censorship, Translation Studies, Gastronomy, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, and 10 moreReformation Studies, Food History, The Classical Tradition, Antiquarianism, Renaissance antiquarianism, History of Antiquarianism, Banquet Customs, House Architecture, Roman social practices, Renaissance Florence, Vincenzio Borghini, and Cibo E Letteratura
Conegliano (TV): Anteferma edizioni, 2022
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Art History, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, and 15 moreRenaissance Art, Numismatics, Italian Renaissance Art, Renaissance literature, Italian Renaissance literature, Antiquarianism, Italian Renaissance Architectural History, Renaissance antiquarianism, Clothing Culture, History of Antiquarianism, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Archaeological textiles and clothing, History of clothing and fashion, Fashion, and Historical Clothing and Textiles
This collection offers a set of new readings on the history, meanings, and cultural innovations of the grotesque as defined by various current critical theories and practices. Since the grotesque frequently manifests itself as striking... more
This collection offers a set of new readings on the history, meanings, and
cultural innovations of the grotesque as defined by various current critical theories and practices. Since the grotesque frequently manifests itself as striking incongruities, ingenious hybrids, and creative deformities of nature and culture, it is profoundly implicated in early modern debates on the theological, philosophical, and ethical role of images. This consideration serves as the central focus from which the articles in the collection then move outward along different lines of conceptualization, chronology, cultural relevance, place, and site. They cover a wide spectrum of artistic media, from prints to drawings, from sculptures to gardens, from paintings to stuccos. As they do this, they engage with, and bring together, theoretical perspectives from writers as diverse as Plato and Paleotti, Vitruvius and Vasari, Molanus and Montaigne. Whether travelling a short distance from Nero’s Domus Aurea to Raphael’s Vatican logge, or across the ocean from Italy to New Spain, this volume goes further than any previous study in defining the historic understanding of grotesque and, in so doing, providing us with a more nuanced resource for our understanding of an art form once viewed as peripheral.
cultural innovations of the grotesque as defined by various current critical theories and practices. Since the grotesque frequently manifests itself as striking incongruities, ingenious hybrids, and creative deformities of nature and culture, it is profoundly implicated in early modern debates on the theological, philosophical, and ethical role of images. This consideration serves as the central focus from which the articles in the collection then move outward along different lines of conceptualization, chronology, cultural relevance, place, and site. They cover a wide spectrum of artistic media, from prints to drawings, from sculptures to gardens, from paintings to stuccos. As they do this, they engage with, and bring together, theoretical perspectives from writers as diverse as Plato and Paleotti, Vitruvius and Vasari, Molanus and Montaigne. Whether travelling a short distance from Nero’s Domus Aurea to Raphael’s Vatican logge, or across the ocean from Italy to New Spain, this volume goes further than any previous study in defining the historic understanding of grotesque and, in so doing, providing us with a more nuanced resource for our understanding of an art form once viewed as peripheral.
Research Interests: Iconography, Art History, Art Theory, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, and 10 moreRenaissance Art, Reformation Studies, Iconoclasm, History of Art, Italian Renaissance Art, Iconology, Renaissance antiquarianism, Bakhtin carnival and the grotesque body, Counter-Reformation art, and Grotesque
Antiquarian Literature in the Sixteenth Century, edited by Joan Carbonell Manils and Gerard González Germain, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, pp. 29-46
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Italian Quarterly 60. 237-238 (2023), pp. 137-171
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Rivista di Letteratura Italiana 41.3 (2023), pp. 75-100
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Paragone Past and Present 4 (2023), pp. 1-44
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La Rivista di Engramma 200 (marzo 2023), pp. 15-22
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Aevum 96.3 (2022), pp. 555-577
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Lettere Italiane 74.1 (2022), pp. 155-163
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Rivista Italiana di Numismatica 123 (2022), pp. 173-210
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A. Zamperini (ed.), Questioni di moda. Iconografia, fonti e storia dal XIV al XX secolo, Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2021, pp. 175-196
Research Interests: Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Fashion History, Antiquarianism, Shoes, and 8 moreRenaissance antiquarianism, Antiquarianism in the seventeenth century, Antiquarianism in the sixteenth century, History of Antiquarianism, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Roman Footwear and Shoemaking, History of clothing and fashion, and Antiquaria e collezionismo
O. Akopyan (ed.), Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2021, pp. 183-214
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Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica 148.2 (2020), pp. 470-486
Research Interests: Greek Literature, Aristophanes, Humanities, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, and 8 moreItalian Humanism, The Classical Tradition, Classical philology, Renaissance antiquarianism, Greek Lexicography, Ancient Greek Lexicography, Aristophanes Peace, and Aristophanes Classical Reception Studies
Forum Italicum 54.3 (2020), pp. 747-784
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M. Sgarbi (ed.), Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Springer, 2020, pp- 1-11
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Dieci brevi studi in onore di Silvana Tamiozzo, a cura di Elena Santagata e Tiziano Zanato, Padova: Libreriauniversitaria.it, 2020, pp. 7-14
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Officina* 25 (2019)
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La Rivista di Engramma 162 (2019)
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Quaderni d'Italianistica 39.1 (2018)
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In 1546 one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the Renaissance took place, the so-called Fasti consulares, panels upon which were engraved the succession of Roman magistrates. These epigraphs were named in several ways,... more
In 1546 one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the Renaissance took place, the so-called Fasti consulares, panels upon which were engraved the succession of Roman magistrates. These epigraphs were named in several ways, reflecting how they were understood by the scholarly community and what their reception would be, given the growing sensitivity to artefacts from antiquity. Their nomenclature was problematic from the very beginning. Only the thorough cross-referencing of textual and material sources could provide a term which eventually expressed their real essence. The purpose of this study is to reconstruct the phases that brought this find to acquire the denomination of fasti in early modern times, and to discover what precisely contributed to this choice.
Research Interests: Philology, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, History and Classical tradition studies, Epigraphy (Archaeology), and 14 moreRenaissance, The Classical Tradition, Latin Epigraphy, Lexicography, Classical philology, Humanism, Roman Epigraphy, Antiquarianism, Renaissance antiquarianism, History of Antiquarianism, Epigraphy, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Latin Lexicography, and Antiquaria e collezionismo
This contribution represents the first attempt to provide a complete overview of the Renaissance works related to ancient clothing (de re vestiaria) composed between the mid-fifteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. The structure, approach... more
This contribution represents the first attempt to provide a complete overview of the Renaissance works related to ancient clothing (de re vestiaria) composed between the mid-fifteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. The structure, approach and method for each treatise are defined in order to demonstrate the evolutionary path of this phenomenon, which was particularly relevant to the cultural life of the time. Two case studies complete the present work, revealing the impact and various ramifications of this knowledge on the development of applied arts. The first concerns an exploration of the influence exerted on theatrical costumes in Italy by antiquarian studies through a comparison between the Poenulus directed by Tomaso Inghirami in Rome in 1513 and the Edipo Tyranno performed by the Accademia Olimpica in Vicenza in 1585. The second concerns an integrated analysis of the relationship between the works on ancient garments and the iconographic patterns of the fresco paintings at Fontainebleau in France, which could shed further light on the identity of iconographers of the Gallery of Francis I.
Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Classical Archaeology, Iconography, Art History, and 43 moreTheatre Studies, History of Ideas, Fashion design, Theatre History, Fashion Theory, Dress Studies, History of Dress, Cultural Heritage, Textiles, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, History and Classical tradition studies, Renaissance, Applied Theatre, Renaissance Art, History of Costume, Fashion History, Renaissance drama, The Classical Tradition, Italian Renaissance Art, Humanism, Renaissance Rome, Costume (Art History), Antiquarianism, Visual Arts, Renaissance antiquarianism, Clothing Culture, Fine Arts, Classical Tradition in Art and Literature, Images and history, Clothing, Teatro, Iconography and Iconology, Fontainebleau, Archaeological textiles and clothing, Theatre Arts, History of clothing and fashion, Italian Medieval and Renaissance Theatre and Spectacle, Clothes, Renaissance France, Fashion, Clothes Collections, and Dressing
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The aim of this work is to provide a possible definition for Renaissance antiquarianism. This cultural pathway, which influenced the way the past was interpreted between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, represented a... more
The aim of this work is to provide a possible definition for Renaissance antiquarianism. This cultural pathway, which influenced the way the past was interpreted between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, represented a methodological perspective which involved the cross-referencing of heterogeneous sources, strongly linked to mankind's perception of time and that helped shape a renewed historical consciousness. Focus will be devoted to a possible history of the phenomenon and a general explanation of its methodology.
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The purpose of this study is to analyse the complex development of the key as an unusual attribute of Lucina in Renaissance iconography, which appears to have been influenced by several semantic fields and emerged as a visible phenomenon... more
The purpose of this study is to analyse the complex development of the key as an unusual attribute of Lucina in Renaissance iconography, which appears to have been influenced by several semantic fields and emerged as a visible phenomenon of a deeper cultural dynamic. The works of artists such as Jacopo Zucchi, Lorenzo Lotto, and Raphael, together with the mythographic treatises of antiquarian scholars such as Lilio Gregorio Giraldi, Giovanni Pierio Valeriano, Vincenzo Cartari and Baccio Baldini, will be examined for the purpose of retracing all aspects of this evolutionary path. What emerges is new material concerning the different perspectives on Lucina during the sixteenth century, including new symbolic readings derived from the philological and textual interpretations that influenced the iconographic building method of that time.
Research Interests: Mythology, Iconography, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Visual Culture, and 21 moreRenaissance Art, Italian Humanism, Italian Renaissance Art, Humanism, Renaissance literature, Symbolism (Religion), Italian Renaissance literature, Renaissance Rome, Symbolism (Art History), Antiquarianism, Visual Arts, Classical Mythology, Greco-Roman Mythology, Emblems and Alchemical Symbolism, Iconology, Renaissance antiquarianism, History of Antiquarianism, Ancient Greek Mythology, Iconography and Iconology, Renaissance Florence, and Allegory Studies
This contribution describes specific aspects of the dispute on the concept of fate developed during the Renaissance, starting from the edition and commentary of an unpublished letter written by Vincenzio Borghini in 1570s. This text... more
This contribution describes specific aspects of the dispute on the concept of fate developed during the Renaissance, starting from the edition and commentary of an unpublished letter written by Vincenzio Borghini in 1570s. This text emerged from the cultural context of the Florentine Academy and was addressed to Baccio Baldini before the publication of his treatise on fate (1578). The genesis, methodology and literary fortune of Borghini’s script will be analysed in relation to similar contemporary works.
Research Interests: Dante Studies, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance Philosophy, and 20 moreItalian Literature, Italian Humanism, Dante and the ancient commentaries tradition, Humanism, Dante, Renaissance literature, Coluccio Salutati, Dante Alighieri, Filologia Italiana Letteratura Italiana del Rinascimento, Filologia dantesca, Rinascimento, Renaissance Florence, Vincenzio Borghini, Umanesimo latino e tradizione dei classici tra sec. XIV e XVI, Fate, Chance, Fortune, Baccio Baldini, Medieval and Humanistic Italian and Latin Literature; the Classical Tradition, Renaissance Humanism, Intellectual History, Italian Humanism, Renaissance Philosophy and Arts, and 16th Italian Humanism
During the sixteenth century, confessional disputes between Catholics and Protestants became the " battlefield " for determining and shaping the reformed Christian religion. Antiquarian erudition played a key role in this process, acting... more
During the sixteenth century, confessional disputes between Catholics and Protestants became the " battlefield " for determining and shaping the reformed Christian religion. Antiquarian erudition played a key role in this process, acting in accordance with the diverse cultural systems in place, justifying doctrinaire positions, and legitimizing the existence of their institutions. Renaissance chronotaxes illustrate this point particularly well. In this article, for the first time, the ecclesiastical chronotaxes disseminated to Christian scholarly environments throughout Renaissance Europe have been collated and studied. Both the driving forces behind this cultural phenomenon and the methods applied are investigated. The key objective here is to present the first catalogue of these works and to offer valuable material that sheds further light on the cultural, historical, and religious dynamics of the time, which may serve as the basis for further academic debate.
Research Interests: Renaissance Studies, Reformation History, Reformation Studies, Reformation Theology, History of the Reformation, and 13 moreEcclesiology, Church History, Renaissance literature, Antiquarianism, Renaissance antiquarianism, Ecclesiastical History, Chronology, History of Antiquarianism, Reformation, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Counter-Reformation, Bishop, and Renaissance Church History
During the sixteenth century the disputes between Catholics and Protestants became the battleground to determine and shape authentic Christianity and the Church. Humanism played a key role in this process conditioned by cultural and... more
During the sixteenth century the disputes between Catholics and Protestants became the battleground to determine and shape authentic Christianity and the Church. Humanism played a key role in this process conditioned by cultural and theological diversity, justifying doctrinal positions and legitimizing the existence of respective institutions with an appeal to history. Translations from church historical sources illustrate how they often derived from theological preconceptions. Starting with the ‘episcopacy issue’ opened initially by Luther and Calvin inter al., this article analyzes the translations of the Greek word episkopos in the Magdeburg Centuries, in Cesare Baronio’s Ecclesiastical Annals, in contemporary vernacular versions of Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History, in J. C. Dietrich’s Lexicon and in some English Bibles. The material gathered and also compared with the position of the Council of Trent shows how these confessionally conditioned translations impacted on the scholarly world, and how they influenced church law with religio-political consequences, thereby
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Research Interests: Philology, Translation Studies, Lexicology, Historical Linguistics, Theology, and 26 moreHistorical Theology, Semantics, Etymology, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Reformation Studies, Calvinism, Bible Translation, Lexical Semantics, Linguistics, Humanism, History of philology, Translation and Interpretation, Antiquarianism, Formal Semantics, Literary translation, Translation and Interpreting, Lutheran Theology, Papal History, Council of Trent, Linguistics. Word-formation. Morphology. Lexicology. Semantics., Papacy (Early Modern and Modern Church History), Counter-Reformation, Traduzione, Humanism (15th-17th c.), and Medieval and Renaissance Greek-Latin Translations
Rassegna Europea di Letteratura Italiana 49-50 (2017)
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No full title for the historical-linguistic compendium of Sextus Pompeius Festus can be found in his manuscript tradition, because the first half of the Codex Farnesianus, the only organic witness of this work, has been missing since it... more
No full title for the historical-linguistic compendium of Sextus Pompeius Festus can be found in his manuscript tradition, because the first half of the Codex Farnesianus, the only organic witness of this work, has been missing since it was discovered in 1457. Festus’ text was an abridged version of De verborum significatu, the extensive treatise of Verrius Flaccus, and was subsequently abridged during the early Middle Ages by Paul the Deacon in an epitome known as De verborum significatione. These two titles and the lack of a reliable formulation for Festus’ work brought about variations in the head titles used throughout its entire editorial history. This phenomenon began to emerge during the Renaissance, when some scholars appear not only to have perceived semantic differences between Paul’s epitome and the Codex Farnesianus, but also attempted to represent these in the title. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reasons behind the different Renaissance titles for Festus, which could offer an interesting overview on how this author was perceived in the history of Classical tradition.
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During the Renaissance, with the rediscovery of the Codex Farnesianus, a new philological and editorial interest in Festus' De verborum significatione arose. Many famous scholars of the 15th and 16th century, inter alios Angelo Poliziano,... more
During the Renaissance, with the rediscovery of the Codex Farnesianus, a new philological and editorial interest in Festus' De verborum significatione arose. Many famous scholars of the 15th and 16th century, inter alios Angelo Poliziano, Aldo Manuzio, Piero Vettori, Antonio Agustìn and Joseph Scaliger, studied and published this work, focusing on various aspects of its tradition. A substantial watershed occurred around 1580 when Fulvio Orsini decided to propose a new edition of Festus: from a methodological perspective, this work emerged as a revolutionary text with the potential to modify our perception of its history, since it considered the Farnesianus as the central ecdotic element. The aim of this contribution is to retrace the pathway followed by Orsini in arranging his text, considering its complex transmission and showing the impact of its innovations and its controversial literary fortunes.
Research Interests: Philology, Latin Literature, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, and 12 moreThe Classical Tradition, Classical philology, Festus, History of philology, Medieval And Humanistic Philology, History of Printmaking, Latin philology, Fulvio Orsini, Antonio Agustin, Joseph Scaliger, Renaissance Philology, and Carlo Sigonio
Only through a protracted and challenging process at the end of the nineteenth-century was Paul the Deacon (Paulus Diaconus) correctly identified as the author of the abridged version of Festus’s De verborum significatione that was in... more
Only through a protracted and challenging process at the end of the nineteenth-century was Paul the Deacon (Paulus Diaconus) correctly identified as the author of the abridged version of Festus’s De verborum significatione that was in circulation in medieval times. However, a group of French scholars had already reached this conclusion during the Renaissance. Te purpose of this study is to reconstruct the cultural path followed by the antiquarians and philologists who were able to make this important discovery ante litteram: by examining the many Renaissance editions of Festus, the perception of Paul’s authorship emerges, revealing how scholars realised that the unidentified Paulus was in fact the Diaconus historian of the Goths and Lombards.
Research Interests: Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Medieval Latin Literature, and 16 moreFrench Renaissance, The Classical Tradition, Carolingian Studies, Classical philology, Festus, Antiquarianism, Renaissance antiquarianism, Medieval Latin, Filologia Italiana Letteratura Italiana del Rinascimento, Latin Lexicography, Paul the Deacon, Latin philology, Ancient Latin Grammarians, Joseph Scaliger, Fragmentary Latin Grammarians, and Pierre Pithou
Thanks to the gradual advancements of antiquarian erudition that brought together different academic disciplines, scholars from all over Europe were able to comprehend the ancient Roman colony and the specific coin type associated with... more
Thanks to the gradual advancements of antiquarian erudition that brought together different academic disciplines, scholars from all over Europe were able to comprehend the ancient Roman colony and the specific coin type associated with this institution. The study of the Roman colony was a cultural process that had a strong impact on sixteenth-century intellectual life leaving its mark on epistolary exchanges and influencing both numismatic scholarship and contemporary artworks. The Renaissance interest in Roman colonial coinage fully embraced the spirit of humanistic antiquarianism, showing how numismatists interacted with the multiform cultural experiences of the time.
Research Interests: Zoology, Iconography, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, and 19 moreRenaissance Art, Numismatics, Italian Renaissance Art, Renaissance literature, Italian Renaissance literature, Collecting and Collections, Antiquarianism, Roman numismatics and archaeology, Ancient Roman Numismatics, Renaissance antiquarianism, Renaissance numismatics, Filologia Italiana Letteratura Italiana del Rinascimento, Iconografia, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Giorgio Vasari, Annibale Carracci, Pirro Ligorio, Vincenzio Borghini, and Antonio Agustin
Con questo articolo si vuole offrire una prima lettura di carattere critico-filologico di un gruppo di lettere inedite concernenti le pitture grottesche composte sul finire del Cinquecento e oggi conservate presso l'Archivio Isolani di... more
Con questo articolo si vuole offrire una prima lettura di carattere critico-filologico di un gruppo di lettere inedite concernenti le pitture grottesche composte sul finire del Cinquecento e oggi conservate presso l'Archivio Isolani di Bologna. Si tratta di lettere scaturite dall'ambiente del cardinale Gabriele Paleotti e in qualche modo concatenate con la stesura del suo celebre Discorso sopra le imagini sacre et profane del 1582. Tale nucelo epistolografico, che include testi di Egnazio Danti, Federico Pendasio, Giambattista Bombelli e forse Alfonso Chacon, rappresenta una delle fasi istruttorie dell'indagine (o processo?) che si andava svolgendo in quegli anni intorno alle grottesche. I testi devono essere letti in maniera sinottica con le analoghe missive di Pirro Ligorio e Ulisse Aldrovandi.
Research Interests: Iconography, Art History, Censorship, Early Modern History, Renaissance Studies, and 16 moreRenaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Renaissance Art, Reformation Studies, Architecture in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, History of Art, Italian Renaissance Art, Italian Renaissance Architectural History, Filologia Italiana Letteratura Italiana del Rinascimento, STORIA DELL'ARTE, FILOSOFIA, LETTERATURA, STORIA DELL'ARTE, Early Modern Art and Visual Culture, Grotesque, Counter-Reformation, Storia Arte Moderna, and Gabriele Paleotti
Presentazione delle lettere sulla pittura di Ulisse Aldrovandi, conservate manoscritte a Bologna, e indirizzate a Gabriele Paleotti.
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This contribution brings new information to light regarding the conceptual development of grotesque decoration in late Renaissance art. Three unpublished letters written by Pirro Ligorio are analysed. These scripts are a product of the... more
This contribution brings new information to light regarding the conceptual development of grotesque decoration in late Renaissance art. Three unpublished letters written by Pirro Ligorio are analysed. These scripts are a product of the cultural context of the Counter-Reformation, the artistic aspects of which were pioneered by Gabriele Paleotti, who requested Ligorio's opinion on grotesque paintings before the publication of his Discorso. By comparing these letters with Paleotti's book and other writings by Ulisse Aldrovandi and Federico Pendasio, it is possible to bring new elements to the Renaissance debate on this ornamental style.
Research Interests: Art History, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance, Renaissance Art, Italian Humanism, and 19 moreArchitecture in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, Intellectual History of the Renaissance, The Classical Tradition, History of Art, Italian Renaissance Art, Italian Renaissance literature, Antiquarianism, Renaissance antiquarianism, Classical Tradition in Art and Literature, Filologia Italiana Letteratura Italiana del Rinascimento, Artes, Pittura Rinascimento, Counter-Reformation art, Grotesque, Pirro Ligorio, Counter-Reformation, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Arte Della Controriforma, and Gabriele Paleotti
During the Renaissance, studies on ancient banqueting became part of mainstream ancient history. Among the early treatments of the subject, the monumental treatise, Antiquitatum convivialium libri, written by the Swiss humanist and... more
During the Renaissance, studies on ancient banqueting became part of mainstream ancient history. Among the early treatments of the subject, the monumental treatise, Antiquitatum convivialium libri, written by the Swiss humanist and Reformed theologian, J. W. Stucki, was a notable breakthrough. The article argues that Stucki was the first humanist to conceive of ancient banqueting as having universal significance, influencing all later writers on the topic. In addition, he used his book as a resource to intervene in confessional disputes with data from antiquarian erudition. After Stucki's publication and its censorship by the Roman Catholic Church, there was a significant boost in such works throughout Europe. The phenomenon was very heterogeneous in light of diversities relating to contrasting Protestant and Catholic regions. This article focuses on the development of different approaches to the topic arising from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds at the time.
Research Interests: Censorship, Gastronomy, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Reformation History, and 14 moreReformation Studies, Food History, Food and Nutrition, Humanism, Antiquarianism, Conviviality, History of Food, History of Gastronomy, Iconografy of Last Supper, Banquet, Umanesimo E Rinascimento Volgarizzamenti, Gastronomía histórica, History of Cooking and Food Culture, and Ancient Greek Banquets
Annali Recensioni Online 4 (2021/1)
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Renaissance and Reformation 41.2 (2018)
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Italian Culture 42 (2024), pp. 1-3
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Renaissance Quarterly 74/2 (2021), pp. 578-580
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Quaderni d'Italianistica 41/1 (2020), pp. 191-193
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Seventeenth Century News, 78:3-4 (Fall 2020), pp. 95-102
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Renaissance and Reformation 42.1 (2019)
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Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies - Exploratory Seminar, Fiesole (FI), 18-19 May 2023
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Villa Le Balze, Georgetown University, Fiesole (FI), 17-18 May 2023
Research Interests: Dante Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Renaissance Philosophy, and 15 moreRenaissance Art, Petrarch, Islamic Studies, Early Modern Intellectual History, Italian Renaissance Art, Dreams (History), Renaissance literature, Italian Renaissance literature, Dreams, Torquato Tasso, The Novella, Matteo Ricci, Raphael, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and Early modern China
Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, European University Institute, Fiesole, 01-02 February 2023
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres - 17-18 November 2022
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Università Ca' Foscari, Ca' Dolfin - Venezia - 25 maggio 2022 - link Zoom https://unive.zoom.us/j/87594466780?pwd=YU12YmFuUkhHMmNkRStqYVY4ZWF2UT09
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Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, Centro Studi di Storia del Tessuto, del Costume e del Profumo - Università Iuav di Venezia - Venezia - 24-25 maggio 2021
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Renaissance Society of America - Annual Meeting - Toronto - 2019
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Renaissance Society of America - Annual Meeting - Toronto - 2019
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Renaissance Society of America - Annual Meeting - Toronto - 2019
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CAA - College Art Association - Annual Conference - New York - 2019
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Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquim - Annual Conference - Toronto - 2018
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Canadian Society for Italian Studies - Conference - Ottawa - 2018
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Renaissance Society of America - Annual Meeting - New Orleans - 2018
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Renaissance Society of America - Annual Meeting - New Orleans - 2018
Research Interests: Art History, Censorship, Renaissance History, Art Theory, Early Modern History, and 19 moreRenaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Renaissance Philosophy, Renaissance Art, Early Modern Europe, Architecture in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, Intellectual History of the Renaissance, Italian Renaissance Art, Renaissance literature, Republic of Letters (Early Modern History), Italian Renaissance literature, Baroque art and architecture, Antiquarianism, Renaissance antiquarianism, Renaissance magic and astrology, History of Antiquarianism, Italian Renaissance, and Grotesque
New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies - Sarasota - 2018
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Sixteenth Century Society & Conference - Annual Conference - Milwaukee - 2017
Research Interests: Renaissance History, Renaissance Studies, Reformation History, Reformation Studies, Intellectual History of the Renaissance, and 12 moreEcclesiology, Church History, Antiquarianism, Renaissance antiquarianism, Ecclesiastical History, Chronology, Antiquarianism in the sixteenth century, History of Antiquarianism, Counter-Reformation, Sixteenth Century History, Renaissance Church History, and Sixteenth Century Political Thought
Graduate Students Association of Italian Studies - International Conference - Toronto - 2017
Third International Conference on Food History and Food Studies - Tours - 2017
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Renaissance Society of America - Annual Meeting - Chicago - 2017
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Renaissance Society of America - Annual Meeting - Boston - 2016
Conference - L'Aquila - 2015
Università Iuav di Venezia, Centro Studi Classica, 19 marzo 2024
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RiVe, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 13 April 2023
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Dialoghi nel Mediterraneo, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 28 April 2021
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Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - Seminar - 2020
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Goggio Lecture - Italian Studies - University of Toronto - 2018
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Seminario ricerche in corso - classicA - Università Iuav di Venezia - 2018
Research Interests: Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Renaissance Art, Fashion History, and 10 moreRenaissance drama, Italian Renaissance Art, Renaissance literature, Antiquarianism, Renaissance antiquarianism, History of Antiquarianism, Clothing, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, History of clothing and fashion, and Fashion
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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library - Toronto - 20 June 2019
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Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice, 23 February 2023
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Accademia Virgiliana, Mantova
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CONVEGNO | Le grottesche degli Uffizi. 13 dicembre, Venezia. Intervengono: Monica Centanni (Università Iuav di Venezia); Samuel Vitali (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut); Alessandra Zamperini (Università degli... more
CONVEGNO | Le grottesche degli Uffizi. 13 dicembre, Venezia.
Intervengono: Monica Centanni (Università Iuav di Venezia); Samuel Vitali (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut); Alessandra Zamperini (Università degli Studi di Verona).
Nell’occasione sarà presentato il volume: Valentina Conticelli, Le grottesche degli Uffizi. Con un contributo di Francesca de Luca, fotografie di Antonio Quattrone, Firenze, Giunti, 2018.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016) grant agreement No. 745704.
Organizzatore: Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici; dott. Damiano Acciarino; TerzaMissioneDSU.
Intervengono: Monica Centanni (Università Iuav di Venezia); Samuel Vitali (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut); Alessandra Zamperini (Università degli Studi di Verona).
Nell’occasione sarà presentato il volume: Valentina Conticelli, Le grottesche degli Uffizi. Con un contributo di Francesca de Luca, fotografie di Antonio Quattrone, Firenze, Giunti, 2018.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016) grant agreement No. 745704.
Organizzatore: Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici; dott. Damiano Acciarino; TerzaMissioneDSU.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Art History, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, and 15 moreRenaissance Art, History of Florence, History of Art, Italian Renaissance Art, 15th Century Italian Art, Italian Renaissance, Florence, Grotesque, 15th Century Florence, Renaissance Florence, Trecento and Quattrocento Italian Art, Galleria Degli Uffizi, Florence, The grotesque in art and literature, Horizon 2020, and Università Ca’ Foscari
Seminario ricerche in corso | mercoledì 13 giugno 2018, ore 15-17 | Palazzo Badoer San Polo 2468, Venezia. Coordina: Monica Centanni (Università Iuav di Venezia) De re vestiaria: gli abiti degli antichi nel Rinascimento Damiano... more
Seminario ricerche in corso | mercoledì 13 giugno 2018, ore 15-17 |
Palazzo Badoer San Polo 2468, Venezia.
Coordina:
Monica Centanni (Università Iuav di Venezia)
De re vestiaria: gli abiti degli antichi nel Rinascimento
Damiano Acciarino (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – University of Toronto)
L’antico alla moda: ispirazione e motivi classici nel vestiario del Cinquecento
Alessandra Zamperini (Università di Verona)
Palazzo Badoer San Polo 2468, Venezia.
Coordina:
Monica Centanni (Università Iuav di Venezia)
De re vestiaria: gli abiti degli antichi nel Rinascimento
Damiano Acciarino (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – University of Toronto)
L’antico alla moda: ispirazione e motivi classici nel vestiario del Cinquecento
Alessandra Zamperini (Università di Verona)
Research Interests: Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Renaissance Art, History of Costume, and 23 moreFashion History, Renaissance drama, The Classical Tradition, Italian Renaissance Art, Renaissance literature, Costume (Art History), Antiquarianism, Renaissance antiquarianism, Classical Tradition in Art and Literature, History of Antiquarianism, Clothing, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, History of clothing and fashion, Fashion and Art, Art and Antropology of Costume Fashion, University of Toronto, Fashion, Costume Reconstruction, Renaissance Costume, Costume Renaissance, IUAV Venezia, Classical Tradition In Renaissance Italy, and Renaissance Fashion
This collection offers a set of new readings on the history, meanings, and cultural innovations of the grotesque as defined by various current critical theories and practices. Since the grotesque frequently manifests itself as striking... more
This collection offers a set of new readings on the history, meanings, and cultural innovations of the grotesque as defined by various current critical theories and practices. Since the grotesque frequently manifests itself as striking incongruities, ingenious hybrids, and creative deformities of nature and culture, it is profoundly implicated in early modern debates on the theological, philosophical, and ethical role of images. This consideration serves as the central focus from which the articles in the collection then move outward along different lines of conceptualization, chronology, cultural relevance, place, and site. They cover a wide spectrum of artistic media, from prints to drawings, from sculptures to gardens, from paintings to stuccos. As they do this, they engage with, and bring together, theoretical perspectives from writers as diverse as Plato and Paleotti, Vitruvius and Vasari, Molanus and Montaigne. Whether travelling a short distance from Nero's Domus Aurea to Raphael's Vatican logge, or across the ocean from Italy to New Spain, this volume goes further than any previous study in defining the historic understanding of grotesque and, in so doing, providing us with a more nuanced resource for our understanding of an art form once viewed as peripheral. This book offers new readings of the history, meanings, and cultural innovations of the grotesque as defined by a diversity of current critical theories and practices anchored by solid, enlightening scholarship. The research presented in these essays is not only sound but impressive.