- Dipartimento di Scienze umanistiche, sociali e della formazione
Università degli Studi del Molise
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L’epistolarità pubblica e personale conosce nel tardo medioevo italiano una crescita esponenziale in molti campi della vita associata, permettendo di creare e alimentare reti di comunicazione dai caratteri molteplici e dalle funzioni... more
L’epistolarità pubblica e personale conosce nel tardo medioevo italiano una crescita esponenziale in molti campi della vita associata, permettendo di creare e alimentare reti di comunicazione dai caratteri molteplici e dalle funzioni diverse. La corrispondenza dinastica dei principi, in particolare, è sempre più oggetto di analisi dettagliate che spaziano dalla storia politico-diplomatica alla storia familiare, comprendendo anche un’attenzione sempre più fine alla scrittura di mano propria e ai processi educativi che sottendono alla formazione epistolare.
La comunicazione si propone di esaminare l’intreccio fra scrittura dinastica, autografia e creazione e mantenimento di reti relazionali di natura politica e culturale in una fattispecie particolare di carteggi dinastici, vale a dire quelli scambiati all’interno di una rosa di signore e principesse tra la fine del Trecento e i primi decenni del Cinquecento. Diverse generazioni di signore e marchese – nate in casa Gonzaga o qui divenute donne di potere e di influenza – esprimono attraverso la scrittura, non infrequentemente di mano propria, una vasta gamma di relazioni personali, familiari, dinastiche e politiche, disciplinando gli affetti e i rapporti di potere interni alla dinastia e mantenendo e alimentando reti al femminile di relazioni internazionali di grande interesse. I casi di cui si terrà conto comprendono Elisabetta e Margherita Gonzaga, Alda d’Este, Margherita Malatesta alla fine del Trecento; Paola Malatesta e Battista da Montefeltro negli anni Venti e Trenta del Quattrocento; Barbara di Brandeburgo, Bianca Maria Visconti e le loro figlie nel pieno Quattrocento, per giungere sino alla doppia generazione di di Isabella e Beatrice d’Este e Chiara e Elisabetta Gonzaga, sino a Eleonora Gonzaga.
La comunicazione si propone di esaminare l’intreccio fra scrittura dinastica, autografia e creazione e mantenimento di reti relazionali di natura politica e culturale in una fattispecie particolare di carteggi dinastici, vale a dire quelli scambiati all’interno di una rosa di signore e principesse tra la fine del Trecento e i primi decenni del Cinquecento. Diverse generazioni di signore e marchese – nate in casa Gonzaga o qui divenute donne di potere e di influenza – esprimono attraverso la scrittura, non infrequentemente di mano propria, una vasta gamma di relazioni personali, familiari, dinastiche e politiche, disciplinando gli affetti e i rapporti di potere interni alla dinastia e mantenendo e alimentando reti al femminile di relazioni internazionali di grande interesse. I casi di cui si terrà conto comprendono Elisabetta e Margherita Gonzaga, Alda d’Este, Margherita Malatesta alla fine del Trecento; Paola Malatesta e Battista da Montefeltro negli anni Venti e Trenta del Quattrocento; Barbara di Brandeburgo, Bianca Maria Visconti e le loro figlie nel pieno Quattrocento, per giungere sino alla doppia generazione di di Isabella e Beatrice d’Este e Chiara e Elisabetta Gonzaga, sino a Eleonora Gonzaga.
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Les villes de l’Italie médiévale ont représenté pour longtemps un scénario idéal pour les écritures d’histoire: tant l’objet que le cadre d’annales, chroniques et histoire, elles ont offert aux notaires de l’âge communale, aux religieux... more
Les villes de l’Italie médiévale ont représenté pour longtemps un scénario idéal pour les écritures d’histoire: tant l’objet que le cadre d’annales, chroniques et histoire, elles ont offert aux notaires de l’âge communale, aux religieux et aux chancelliers humanistes les thèmes et les instruments pour bâtir une mémoire et une identité collective. Ma communication se concentre sur trois textes d’histoire écrits au moyen âge tardif et au sezième siècle dans la ville de Mantoue, seigneurie et après principauté des Gonzague. Leurs auteurs étaient des membres de la société politique des seigneurs et princes de la ville. Bonamente Aliprandi (ca 1350-1417), Andrea Stanziali da Schivenoglia (1411-1484), Jacopo Daino (fin XVe siècle-1563 ca) étaient très differents entr’eux par rapport à leur statut social, profil professionnel et carrière politique. Un grand marchand (Aliprandi), un petit proprietaire fondiaire lié à un vaste groupe familiale de mineurs seigneurs ruraux tournés chanceliers du prince (Schivenoglia), un notaire, chancelier et archiviste des premiers ducs de Mantoue (Daino), avaient très peu en commun exception faite pour leur identité citadine et leur interêt aux écritures d’histoire et de mémoire, un interêt fondé sur l’usage des documents écrits pour leur reconstructions historiques. Cet interêt est le fil rouge qui les lie ensemble: néanmoins, leur attitude envers les documents de la pratique change au cours du siècle et démi qui les sépare. Si Aliprandi et Schivenoglia, chacun à sa manière, racontent leur histoire et cette de leur ville, Daino inaugure, avec sa Genealogia des Gonzague dans la forme d’une collection de regestes de l’archivio parvo des princes de Mantoue, la longue saison de l’érudition moderne.
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Il saggio considera le pratiche di produzione e conservazione delle corrispondenze diplomatiche dei principati italiani quattrocenteschi di Milano, Mantova e Ferrara tra fine Trecento e pieno Cinquecento. Va precisato peraltro che con i... more
Il saggio considera le pratiche di produzione e conservazione delle corrispondenze diplomatiche dei principati italiani quattrocenteschi di Milano, Mantova e Ferrara tra fine Trecento e pieno Cinquecento. Va precisato peraltro che con i termini ‘carteggi’ o ‘corrispondenze diplomatiche’ si intenderà un complesso di scritture che comprende tipologie documentarie diverse ma correlate fra loro, che componevano un sistema testuale sostanzialmente unitario nel suo farsi e nell’uso quotidiano che ne veniva fatto. I componenti di questo sistema – lettere, registri, minute – hanno acquistato autonomia archivistica in epoche successive alla loro produzione e al loro uso, venendo al tempo stesso private del loro significato originario di tessere interconnesse di un sistema funzionale. Questo corpo documentario inizia a emergere nel panorama coevo delle scritture nel momento in cui appare a chi lo produce e lo usa come un insieme dotato di caratteristiche proprie sufficienti e sufficientemente costanti nel tempo seppur breve della politica per distinguerlo da altri gruppi di scritture. Le tappe grazie alle quali questo processo di identificazione prende corpo, da un certo momento in poi (la seconda metà del Cinquecento) cambiano di segno, iniziando a condizionare via via più profondamente la percezione stessa del funzionamento originario del sistema.
L’analisi di queste complesse dinamiche verrà compiuta cercando innanzitutto di individuare caratteri e rapporti delle diverse tipologie documentarie che compongono il complesso delle corrispondenze diplomatiche, per poi ripercorrerne rapidamente forme e tempi della conservazione coeva e successiva.
L’analisi di queste complesse dinamiche verrà compiuta cercando innanzitutto di individuare caratteri e rapporti delle diverse tipologie documentarie che compongono il complesso delle corrispondenze diplomatiche, per poi ripercorrerne rapidamente forme e tempi della conservazione coeva e successiva.
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During the fifteenth century, the interaction between the Iberian kingdoms and the Italian pricipalities of the Po plain became closer. This paper deals with the way in which the dinastic links between the courts of Aragon/Castile, Naples... more
During the fifteenth century, the interaction between the Iberian kingdoms and the Italian pricipalities of the Po plain became closer. This paper deals with the way in which the dinastic links between the courts of Aragon/Castile, Naples and the princes of Ferrara and Mantua, and the growing attention of the kings of Castile and Aragon towards Italy, fostered new, multilayered and diversified contacts between all those princes at the eve of the Italian Wars.
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Quels sont les caractères de la notion d’écriture pragmatique en contexte italophone ? Un examen des traditions de recherches sur le thème permet d’esquisser un tableau des formes et modèles italiennes d’écriture pragmatique vers la... more
Quels sont les caractères de la notion d’écriture
pragmatique en contexte italophone ? Un examen des traditions de
recherches sur le thème permet d’esquisser un tableau des formes et
modèles italiennes d’écriture pragmatique vers la fin du Moyen Âge.
pragmatique en contexte italophone ? Un examen des traditions de
recherches sur le thème permet d’esquisser un tableau des formes et
modèles italiennes d’écriture pragmatique vers la fin du Moyen Âge.
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Political violence and murder became more frequent in Italian courts and polities towards the end of the fifteenth century : from 1476 to the 1490s an impressive series of conspiracies – more or less successful, more or less real –... more
Political violence and murder became more frequent in Italian courts and polities towards the end of the fifteenth century : from 1476 to the 1490s an impressive series of conspiracies – more or less successful, more or less real – ponctuated the political life of principalities and republics, and added a significant new meaning to the problem of the violence at the court. Internal and diplomatic correspondences, chronicles, and a various array of sources including asthrological predictions tell the historian a complex and not always coherent story. The paper deals with three case-studies (Ferrara, Milan, and Mantua), and focuses on the meanings of violent conspiracies and on the changes that a use of political passions and violent behaviour introduced in the Italian political arena and its languages at the eve of the Italian Wars.
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in Istituzioni, scritture, contabilità. Il caso molisano nell'Italia tardomedievale, a cura di I. Lazzarini, A. Miranda, F. Senatore, Roma, Viella, 2017, pp. 325-344
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Since the nineteenth century, Renaissance Italy has been on the front line of diplomatic research, mainly providing excellent case-studies for the theory associating the beginnings of permanent diplomacy and the emergence of resident... more
Since the nineteenth century, Renaissance Italy has been on the front line of diplomatic research, mainly providing excellent case-studies for the theory associating the beginnings of permanent diplomacy and the emergence of resident ambassadors with the process of state-building. More than a century later, however, the most recent research is moving away from diplomacy as an institutional tool of power, and is increasingly looking at it as a a flexible political activity in which a full range of dynamics until now mostly considered separately—negotiation, information-gathering, representation, and communication—interacted in a process intimately linked to political and cultural transformations of power and authority.
In such a revision, the analysis of the writing practices and habits of the professionals of written communication involved in diplomatic interactions has been paramount. My paper will therefore focus on the role of recent paleographical and diplomatistic research to the renewal of late medieval and early Renaissance Italian diplomatic history.
In such a revision, the analysis of the writing practices and habits of the professionals of written communication involved in diplomatic interactions has been paramount. My paper will therefore focus on the role of recent paleographical and diplomatistic research to the renewal of late medieval and early Renaissance Italian diplomatic history.
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Enjeu central dans la vie politique de l'Italie septentrionale et toscane aux deux derniers siècles du Moyen Age, les procédures de désignation des officiers ont depuis longtemps retenu les historiens. Confrontés à une documentation... more
Enjeu central dans la vie politique de l'Italie septentrionale et toscane aux deux derniers siècles du Moyen Age, les procédures de désignation des officiers ont depuis longtemps retenu les historiens. Confrontés à une documentation riche, parfois pléthorique, ceux-ci ne se sont ...
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L’attenzione a una “storia documentaria” dei poteri tardomedievali si colloca al crocevia di una serie di ricerche recenti di grande interesse, legate da un lato al rapporto fra scritture e potere, dall’altro ai processi di... more
L’attenzione a una “storia documentaria” dei poteri tardomedievali si colloca al crocevia di una serie di ricerche recenti di grande interesse, legate da un lato al rapporto fra scritture e potere, dall’altro ai processi di state-building. Il presente volume si propone di fare convergere questo fascio di tematiche attorno a un caso speci co: le fonti relative alle comunità e alle grandi stirpi feudali radicate in quel che ora consideriamo Molise durante l’età angioino-a- ragonese (XIII-XV sec.). Il caso molisano viene poi inserito nei più ampi scenari del Regno di Napoli e della penisola, mettendo a fuoco lo speci co snodo costituito dal rapporto fra scritture cancelleresche e contabili e istituzioni nel costruirsi di relazioni complesse fra centri e territori.
Contributi di Alaggio, Figliuolo, Iannacci, Jamme, Lazzarini, Miranda, Morelli, Mottola, Russo, Senatore, Silvestri, Tanzini, Terenzi.
Contributi di Alaggio, Figliuolo, Iannacci, Jamme, Lazzarini, Miranda, Morelli, Mottola, Russo, Senatore, Silvestri, Tanzini, Terenzi.
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Cogliendo l’occasione del primo centenario della pubblicazione del volume Studi e ricerche di diplomatica comunale di Pietro Torelli (1911), il volume, che raccoglie gli atti delle giornate di studio tenutesi a Mantova il 2-3 dicembre... more
Cogliendo l’occasione del primo centenario della pubblicazione del volume Studi e ricerche di diplomatica comunale di Pietro Torelli (1911), il volume, che raccoglie gli atti delle giornate di studio tenutesi a Mantova il 2-3 dicembre 2011, si propone di raccogliere i contributi dei migliori studiosi del Duecento italiano e del fenomeno comunale per riconsiderare il ruolo di Torelli nel panorama degli studi medievistici del Novecento, e insieme per fare il punto sullo stato attuale della ricerca italiana su questi temi,
cruciali per la costruzione della ‘grande narrazione’ dell’Italia dei Comuni e delle città.
cruciali per la costruzione della ‘grande narrazione’ dell’Italia dei Comuni e delle città.
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Attraverso un’indagine comparativa delle varie e articolate realtà politiche che compongono il mondo italiano dal Trecento al primo Cinquecento, un gruppo internazionale di studiosi propone una lettura innovativa della storia politica... more
Attraverso un’indagine comparativa delle varie e articolate realtà politiche che compongono il mondo italiano dal Trecento al primo Cinquecento, un gruppo internazionale di studiosi propone una lettura innovativa della storia politica dell’Italia del Rinascimento, che rappresenta anche la più recente ricerca su questi temi. Il mosaico di regni, principati, signorie e repubbliche – nella sua complessità e varietà, e con le sue trasformazioni – consente infatti di mettere in campo una serie di temi politici più ampi, comuni a tutti i tipi di stati e poteri peninsulari e di affrontare così da un nuovo punto di vista il controverso problema dell’apparente debolezza del sistema politico italiano.
Ridefinendo il Rinascimento come un fenomeno principalmente politico, oltre che artistico e culturale, i saggi raccolti in questo volume identificano in questo periodo un momento cruciale della storia dello Stato e un vero e proprio “laboratorio”, i cui linguaggi, pratiche e strumenti politici, insieme alle istituzioni pubbliche e di governo, divennero essenziali per l’evoluzione dell’identità politica europea.
Contributi di Alessandro Barbero, Marco Bellabarca, Sandro Carocci, Guido Castelnuovo, Federica Cengarle, Giorgio Chittolini, Trevor Dean, Massimo Della Misericordia, Federico Del Tredici, Serena Ferente, Franco Franceschi, Andrea Gamberini, Marco Gentile, Michael Knapton, Isabella Lazzarini, E. Igor Mineo, Luca Molà, Olivetta Schena, Francesco Senatore, Christine Shaw, Francesco Somaini, Lorenzo Tanzini, Fabrizio Titone, Gian Maria Varanini, Andrea Zorzi.
Ridefinendo il Rinascimento come un fenomeno principalmente politico, oltre che artistico e culturale, i saggi raccolti in questo volume identificano in questo periodo un momento cruciale della storia dello Stato e un vero e proprio “laboratorio”, i cui linguaggi, pratiche e strumenti politici, insieme alle istituzioni pubbliche e di governo, divennero essenziali per l’evoluzione dell’identità politica europea.
Contributi di Alessandro Barbero, Marco Bellabarca, Sandro Carocci, Guido Castelnuovo, Federica Cengarle, Giorgio Chittolini, Trevor Dean, Massimo Della Misericordia, Federico Del Tredici, Serena Ferente, Franco Franceschi, Andrea Gamberini, Marco Gentile, Michael Knapton, Isabella Lazzarini, E. Igor Mineo, Luca Molà, Olivetta Schena, Francesco Senatore, Christine Shaw, Francesco Somaini, Lorenzo Tanzini, Fabrizio Titone, Gian Maria Varanini, Andrea Zorzi.
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Diplomacy has never been a politically-neutral research field, even when it was confined to merely reconstructing the backgrounds of wars and revolutions. In the nineteenth century, diplomacy was integral to the grand narrative of the... more
Diplomacy has never been a politically-neutral research field, even when it was confined to merely reconstructing the backgrounds of wars and revolutions. In the nineteenth century, diplomacy was integral to the grand narrative of the building of the modern 'nation-State'. This is the first overall study of diplomacy in Early Renaissance Italy since Garrett Mattingly's pioneering work in 1955. It offers an innovative approach to the theme of Renaissance diplomacy, sidestepping the classic dichotomy between medieval and early modern, and re-considering the whole diplomatic process without reducing it to the 'grand narrative' of the birth of resident embassies. Communication and Conflict situates and explains the growth of diplomatic activity from a series of perspectives - political and institutional, cognitive and linguistic, material and spatial - and thus offers a highly sophisticated and persuasive account of causation, change, and impact in respect of a major political and cultural form.
The volume also provides the most complete account to date of how it was that specifically Italian forms of diplomacy came to play such a central role, not only in the development of international relations at the European level, but also in the spread and application of humanism and of the new modes of political thinking and political discussion associated with the generations of Machiavelli and Guicciardini.
The volume also provides the most complete account to date of how it was that specifically Italian forms of diplomacy came to play such a central role, not only in the development of international relations at the European level, but also in the spread and application of humanism and of the new modes of political thinking and political discussion associated with the generations of Machiavelli and Guicciardini.
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This study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading... more
This study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and variety of the Italian world from the fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries, surveying the mosaic of kingdoms, principalities, signorie and republics against a backdrop of wider political themes common to all types of state in the period. The authors address the contentious problem of the apparent weakness of the Italian Renaissance political system. By repositioning the Renaissance as a political, rather than simply an artistic and cultural phenomenon, they identify the period as a pivotal moment in the history of the state, in which political languages, practices and tools, together with political and governmental institutions, became vital to the evolution of a modern European political identity.
Alla fine del Medioevo, l’Italia si presenta come un articolato sistema di stati e poteri politici legati fra loro da significativi vincoli funzionali. La simbiosi politica si nutre non solo di alleanze militari o di scambi diplomatici,... more
Alla fine del Medioevo, l’Italia si presenta come un articolato sistema di stati e poteri politici legati fra loro da significativi vincoli funzionali. La simbiosi politica si nutre non solo di alleanze militari o di scambi diplomatici, ma anche di una serie di interazioni sociali più quotidiane, che uniscono i protagonisti della vita pubblica in diverse reti di affinità. Appartenere alla società civile e politica nell’Italia tardomedievale significa infatti collocarsi all’interno di una serie di network sociali di natura diversa e di vario respiro. Queste reti si dispiegano su scale e spazi geografici e sociali diversi – dal mondo rurale alla città, dalla corte al nucleo familiare, dai circuiti degli scambi al sistema degli stati – e concorrono in vario grado a definire l’identità individuale e il ruolo di uomini e donne. Il volume si propone di analizzare queste varie forme di appartenenza e il loro sovrapporsi, mettendo a frutto le ricerche più recenti in tema di network relazionali.
In April 1479, for the first time, rural communities in Renaissance Mantua swore a general fidelity oath to their lord, marquis Federico Gonzaga, thus inaugurating a practice that became common in the following decades. In 1479, a general... more
In April 1479, for the first time, rural communities in Renaissance Mantua swore a general fidelity oath to their lord, marquis Federico Gonzaga, thus inaugurating a practice that became common in the following decades. In 1479, a general oath was a relatively new practice: its meaning and extent deserve a fine analysis, as well as its origins and antecedents. This volume presents the complete edition of the oath (with a digital reproduction of all the surviving documents), and analyses, interpreters and puts in an Italian perspective the event and its political and documentary meaning.
Il quadro generale di riferimento, la successione degli eventi, gli sviluppi politici e sociali, i caratteri peculiari di un'epoca di grande importanza nella storia della penisola. Attraverso un lungo e complesso processo di... more
Il quadro generale di riferimento, la successione degli eventi, gli sviluppi politici e sociali, i caratteri peculiari di un'epoca di grande importanza nella storia della penisola. Attraverso un lungo e complesso processo di trasformazione degli assetti istituzionali e delle forme sociali emerge in questo periodo, dal mosaico dei poteri italiani del Medioevo centrale, una geografia di Stati che con alterne vicende giungerà sino all'Unità d'Italia.
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Diplomacy in the past decades has peremptorily resurfaced on the historians’ desk: after being defined in the 19th century as one of the backbones of the building of the nation-state, and being neglected in the second half of the 20th... more
Diplomacy in the past decades has peremptorily resurfaced on the historians’ desk: after being defined in the 19th century as one of the backbones of the building of the nation-state, and being neglected in the second half of the 20th century as an inward-looking, all-political field, diplomatic history, renovated by cultural history and historical anthropology, is increasingly at the heart of a political history more attentive than ever to how social structures and cultural practices shape political interactions.
In such a context, my communication would focus on Italian diplomatic practice in the early Renaissance. Since the 19th century, Italian polities have provided excellent case-studies for the theory associating the beginnings of permanent diplomacy and the emergence of resident ambassadors with the process of state-building. However, in the last decades this grand narrative has been profoundly revisited. Multilayered communication and negotiation networks, information gathering, and letter-writing are at the heart of such a revision, and have been increasingly seen as the major features of a ‘new’ diplomacy based on the development of communication networks through which conflicts were dealt with by the way of multiple interactions in order to build legitimacy upon pragmatic reciprocal recognition.
In such a context, my communication would focus on Italian diplomatic practice in the early Renaissance. Since the 19th century, Italian polities have provided excellent case-studies for the theory associating the beginnings of permanent diplomacy and the emergence of resident ambassadors with the process of state-building. However, in the last decades this grand narrative has been profoundly revisited. Multilayered communication and negotiation networks, information gathering, and letter-writing are at the heart of such a revision, and have been increasingly seen as the major features of a ‘new’ diplomacy based on the development of communication networks through which conflicts were dealt with by the way of multiple interactions in order to build legitimacy upon pragmatic reciprocal recognition.
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Donne Gonzaga a corte. Reti istituzionali, pratiche culturali e affari di governo. Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Mantova, 21-24 settembre 2016, Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana - Centro Europa delle Corti
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Il laboratorio del Rinascimento. Studi di storia e cultura in onore di Riccardo Fubini, a cura di Lorenzo Tanzini, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2015. Saggi di P. Gilli, A. Fabbri, L. Tanzini, S. Ferente, A. Brown, L. Boeninger, P. Pertici, W.-S.... more
Il laboratorio del Rinascimento. Studi di storia e cultura in onore di Riccardo Fubini, a cura di Lorenzo Tanzini, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2015.
Saggi di P. Gilli, A. Fabbri, L. Tanzini, S. Ferente, A. Brown, L. Boeninger, P. Pertici, W.-S. Kim, C. Bianca, T. Daniels, N. Ben-Aryeh Debby, G. Chittolini, F. Klein, J. Barhas, A. Molho, G. Ianziti
Saggi di P. Gilli, A. Fabbri, L. Tanzini, S. Ferente, A. Brown, L. Boeninger, P. Pertici, W.-S. Kim, C. Bianca, T. Daniels, N. Ben-Aryeh Debby, G. Chittolini, F. Klein, J. Barhas, A. Molho, G. Ianziti
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The Venetian Seminar is a peripatetic one-day workshop with a long tradition of participation by scholars of history, art history, literature and linguistics who study Venice and Italy. It is convened on a yearly basis by Alex Bamji... more
The Venetian Seminar is a peripatetic one-day workshop with a long tradition of participation by scholars of history, art history, literature and linguistics who study Venice and Italy. It is convened on a yearly basis by Alex Bamji (Leeds), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), and Mary Laven (Cambridge).
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The aim of the conference is to examine the concept of the ‘classical past’ by analysing how ruling elites, civic communities, social groups and families in Italy in different periods and in different contexts invented and shaped their... more
The aim of the conference is to examine the concept of the ‘classical past’ by analysing how ruling elites, civic communities, social groups and families in Italy in different periods and in different contexts invented and shaped their own ‘classical’ past according to their actual concerns.
The conference is conceived as the final international meeting of the HistAntArtSI project. Funded by an ERC grant, HistAntArtSI (www.histantartsi.eu) has been studying over the last five years (2011-2015) historical memory, antiquarian culture and artistic patronage in the cities and towns of southern Italy between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In particular, the project has been looking at how documents sanctioning the existence of local administrative institutions, and monuments from antiquity and from the more recent past, both surviving in conspicuous quantities, were central to the processes of constructing the local identities of urban centres throughout the Kingdom of Naples. Identity was expressed both through new literary works and new works of art and architecture. The results of the research are now established and are ready for comparison with similar researches relating to other areas and to other historical periods, with the aim above all of questioning, through this comparative approach, the underlying reasons which motivated the creation of urban and civic identity.
By examining a very wide chronological range, from ancient Roman times to the Neoclassical period, and focusing on various contexts in the Italian territory, the conference aims to look at how in different periods different areas shaped their notions of the ‘antique’ and their own idea of the past, an idea which was not necessarily confined to Greek and Roman remains, but could include examples from pre-Greek and pre-Roman indigenous pasts, as well as from more recent history. Real or fictive ruins, inscriptions, and literary works were used to express a particular vision of a place’s local origins, to rewrite its history or manifest its civic pride.
Speakers will select from their own research themes and cases addressing the idea of why and how ‘antiquity’ was reused, and examine the ways in which individuals or communities of patrons or artists, in looking back to the past, chose to select specific features from it. In particular, papers will deal with cultural operations in which the reuse or revival of ‘antiquity’ was not only intended as a formal and aesthetic element, but was guided by an ideological need to build a contemporary sense of identity, which took the past as its point of departure. Papers will also consider how the exchange or intermittence of past and present led to the strategic selection and display of ancestors and genealogies as part of the reconstruction of a family or centre’s history and therefore of their identity. They may also address the concepts of ‘geographical antiquity’ and ‘chronological antiquity’, that is to say, cases where ancient remains were reused because they were local and therefore in order to enhance local history (as in Capua or Milan during the fifteenth century), or because there was a need to refer back to a specific period of the past (as in the Paleochristian revival in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Rome).
The conference is conceived as the final international meeting of the HistAntArtSI project. Funded by an ERC grant, HistAntArtSI (www.histantartsi.eu) has been studying over the last five years (2011-2015) historical memory, antiquarian culture and artistic patronage in the cities and towns of southern Italy between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In particular, the project has been looking at how documents sanctioning the existence of local administrative institutions, and monuments from antiquity and from the more recent past, both surviving in conspicuous quantities, were central to the processes of constructing the local identities of urban centres throughout the Kingdom of Naples. Identity was expressed both through new literary works and new works of art and architecture. The results of the research are now established and are ready for comparison with similar researches relating to other areas and to other historical periods, with the aim above all of questioning, through this comparative approach, the underlying reasons which motivated the creation of urban and civic identity.
By examining a very wide chronological range, from ancient Roman times to the Neoclassical period, and focusing on various contexts in the Italian territory, the conference aims to look at how in different periods different areas shaped their notions of the ‘antique’ and their own idea of the past, an idea which was not necessarily confined to Greek and Roman remains, but could include examples from pre-Greek and pre-Roman indigenous pasts, as well as from more recent history. Real or fictive ruins, inscriptions, and literary works were used to express a particular vision of a place’s local origins, to rewrite its history or manifest its civic pride.
Speakers will select from their own research themes and cases addressing the idea of why and how ‘antiquity’ was reused, and examine the ways in which individuals or communities of patrons or artists, in looking back to the past, chose to select specific features from it. In particular, papers will deal with cultural operations in which the reuse or revival of ‘antiquity’ was not only intended as a formal and aesthetic element, but was guided by an ideological need to build a contemporary sense of identity, which took the past as its point of departure. Papers will also consider how the exchange or intermittence of past and present led to the strategic selection and display of ancestors and genealogies as part of the reconstruction of a family or centre’s history and therefore of their identity. They may also address the concepts of ‘geographical antiquity’ and ‘chronological antiquity’, that is to say, cases where ancient remains were reused because they were local and therefore in order to enhance local history (as in Capua or Milan during the fifteenth century), or because there was a need to refer back to a specific period of the past (as in the Paleochristian revival in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Rome).
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The PhD in History and Archaeology covers many research fields - anthropology, archaeology, oriental studies, history and other intercultural connections - from prehistory to modern times. They follow an interdisciplinary dimension and... more
The PhD in History and Archaeology covers many
research fields - anthropology, archaeology, oriental
studies, history and other intercultural connections
- from prehistory to modern times. They follow an interdisciplinary
dimension and different methodologies, focusing
on the construction and intersection of individual and collective memories as a way to represent, express and transmit experience and practice.
Pluri-disciplinarity is therefore the main feature of
the Program. The PhD aims to form scholars able to play
high qualified roles in the Universities, in scientific and
cultural institutions, in the private sector, in preserving,
safeguarding and promoting the territory and its historical
heritage, both in public and private, by processing and
interpreting historical sources and archaeological materials.
research fields - anthropology, archaeology, oriental
studies, history and other intercultural connections
- from prehistory to modern times. They follow an interdisciplinary
dimension and different methodologies, focusing
on the construction and intersection of individual and collective memories as a way to represent, express and transmit experience and practice.
Pluri-disciplinarity is therefore the main feature of
the Program. The PhD aims to form scholars able to play
high qualified roles in the Universities, in scientific and
cultural institutions, in the private sector, in preserving,
safeguarding and promoting the territory and its historical
heritage, both in public and private, by processing and
interpreting historical sources and archaeological materials.
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paper presented at the workshop Stylus curiae. Spiegelregeln der Konflict- und Verhandlungsfühurung am Papsthof des Mittelalters (12.-15. Jahrhundert), 1. und 2. Dezember 2017, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, organised by J.... more
paper presented at the workshop Stylus curiae. Spiegelregeln der Konflict- und Verhandlungsfühurung am Papsthof des Mittelalters (12.-15. Jahrhundert), 1. und 2. Dezember 2017, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, organised by J. Novak, G. Strack (forthcoming)
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Come ormai quasi un ventennio di ricerche comunalistiche dimostra, il concetto di ‘lista’ ha un valore cruciale per gli studi recenti sulla politica comunale e i suoi strumenti operativi: la mia comunicazione intende seguire gli sviluppi... more
Come ormai quasi un ventennio di ricerche comunalistiche dimostra, il concetto di ‘lista’ ha un valore cruciale per gli studi recenti sulla politica comunale e i suoi strumenti operativi: la mia comunicazione intende seguire gli sviluppi di un elemento documentario così enfaticamente cruciale nel contesto tardomedievale, allorché le premesse politiche e sociali della sua rilevanza si trasformano e il suo ruolo nel sistema documentario considerato è per forza mutato. L’analisi verte sui registri di governo (registri di litterae patentes e litterae clausae, e registri contabili) e su due tipi di elenchi correlati ai registri o parte di essi (gli indici di questi stessi volumi e gli inventari della documentazione principesca di cancelleria e di camera), che in vario modo arricchiscono e trasformano il senso della parola ‘lista’ nelle scritture pubbliche e nelle scritture grige prodotte nelle signorie e nei principati dell’Italia settentrionale tra Tre e Quattrocento.
In corso di stampa in Écritures grises. Les instruments de travail administratif en Europe méridionale (XIIe-XVIIe siècles). Atelier II. Instrumenter l’action administrative, a cura di A. Fossier, J. Petitjean, C. Revest
In corso di stampa in Écritures grises. Les instruments de travail administratif en Europe méridionale (XIIe-XVIIe siècles). Atelier II. Instrumenter l’action administrative, a cura di A. Fossier, J. Petitjean, C. Revest
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La contribution cherche avant tout à brosser un premier tableau des registres de chancellerie dans trois principautés de l’Italie du nord, de nature diverse et de dimensions variées : le duché territorial de Milan, le marquisat de... more
La contribution cherche avant tout à brosser un premier tableau des registres de chancellerie dans trois principautés de l’Italie du nord, de nature diverse et de dimensions variées : le duché territorial de Milan, le marquisat de Mantoue, dont la capitale est l’unique ville de l’État, et les domaines des marquis/ducs de la maison d’Este, qui dominent les cités épiscopales de Ferrare, Modène et Reggio. L’attention se porte surtout sur le XVe siècle, même si les pratiques documentaires considérées sont enracinées dans la seconde moitié du Trecento. La nature, les formes, l’évolution des registres de « lettres » dans leurs diverses déclinaisons (missives, lettres de justice, lettres de nomination aux offices…) et tout au long d’une chronologie variée offrent un tableau très complexe et différencié, mais prodigue en enseignements : stratégies documentaires, choix de conservation, techniques de gouvernement se croisent dans la construction de ces ensembles documentaires produits par trois principautés assez différentes du point de vue territorial, mais issues d’une même matrice constitutionnelle, et nourries de l’héritage documentaire de la culture urbaine et notariale du Duecento.
In corso di stampa in "L’art du registre en France, XIIIe-XVIe siècle, II, Registres princiers du Moyen Âge", (journée d’études organisée par les Archives Nationales et l’École des Chartes, Paris, 10 May 2011), O. Guyotjeannin (éd.) Paris, Publications de l’École nationale des Chartes
In corso di stampa in "L’art du registre en France, XIIIe-XVIe siècle, II, Registres princiers du Moyen Âge", (journée d’études organisée par les Archives Nationales et l’École des Chartes, Paris, 10 May 2011), O. Guyotjeannin (éd.) Paris, Publications de l’École nationale des Chartes
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Paper read at the RSA, Washington, 22-24 March 2012, in the session "Men's Business and Women's Work: The Political and Material Cultures of the Strozzi and Albizzi" (S.J. Milner session org.) The Florentine relational framework of the... more
Paper read at the RSA, Washington, 22-24 March 2012, in the session "Men's Business and Women's Work: The Political and Material Cultures of the Strozzi and Albizzi" (S.J. Milner session org.)
The Florentine relational framework of the Albizzi period has been intensely investigated since the late 1970s : my communication would not revisit this over-worked narrative, but instead would focus on the textual structure, linguistic and discursive resources and political languages displayed by a single amazing documentary ensemble produced by a eminent Florentine patrician and statesman, Rinaldo degli Albizzi.
The Florentine relational framework of the Albizzi period has been intensely investigated since the late 1970s : my communication would not revisit this over-worked narrative, but instead would focus on the textual structure, linguistic and discursive resources and political languages displayed by a single amazing documentary ensemble produced by a eminent Florentine patrician and statesman, Rinaldo degli Albizzi.
