National and Private Ambitions in the Patronage of French Cardinals at the Papal Court (Fifteenth to Sixteenth centuries) [PDF]
Few French cardinals left important traces in the form of architectural patronage in Rome during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a period characterised by the alternation of times of strong tension between the French kings and the Papacy, and ...
Bardati, Flaminia
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Abstract This article analyses some examples of historical narratives that, long before the emergence of so‐called postmodern history, had a specific narrative character: the reconstructions of ‘missed revolutions’ taking into account a possible alternative history and tracing back the reasons for a social, political, and economic crisis to an ...
PATRICIA CHIANTERA‐STUTTE
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The essay highlights the reception of De Architectura between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries, focusing on the exegetical contributions to the complicated Vitruvian text by humanists and artists.
Andrea Severi, Giacomo Ventura
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Judging books from the cover: for a data-base of Renaissance dialogue-forms in Italy
The paper aims to propose the first results of a quantitative survey on the dialogue-form in the Italian Renaissance. Among the characteristics of this writing and argumentative practice, spread especially between the sixteenth and sixteenth centuries ...
Elena Bilancia
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Chasing the Numinous: Hungry Ghosts in the Shadow of the Psychedelic Renaissance
Abstract In recent years a renewed scientific, public and commercial interest in psychedelic medicines can be observed across the globe. As research findings have been generally promising, there is hope for new treatment possibilities for a number of difficult‐to‐treat mental health concerns.
Helge Michael Osterhold +1 more
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Jews in the Papal States between Western Sephardic Diasporas and ghettoization. A trial in Ancona as a case study (1555-1563) [PDF]
Based on the analysis of a case study from Ancona, this article proposes to reread the beginning of the ghettoization in the Papal States (1555) within both the Western Sephardic Diasporas and the so-long Italian Wars (1494-1555).
DI NEPI, Serena
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The Transmission of the \u3cem\u3eSomniale Danielis\u3c/em\u3e, from Latin to Vernacular Italian (Laurenziano Martelli 12 and Riccardiano 859) [PDF]
The Somniale Danielis is a dream manual widely circulated in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is structured through dream symbols and their concise explanation.
Cappozzo, Valerio
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Spelling correctness as a witness of changing documentary culture in Tuscia (eighth–ninth centuries)
This paper discusses the evolution of documentary culture in early medieval Tuscia by quantitatively examining the Latin spelling of charter scribes in relation to the following factors: time, the distinction between the formulaic and non‐formulaic parts of the document, the scribe’s domicile, the scribe’s professional status, and the document type ...
Timo Korkiakangas
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THE INFLUENCE OF ANTHROPOCENTRISM ON THE WORK OF ARTISTS OF THE HIGH RENAISSANCE
The article describes a number of factors that influenced the work of artists of the High Renaissance, in particular the philosophical thought of this period and changes in the worldview of people of this era.
Churga Yu.
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La “musica degli angeli”: Josquin Desprez al liceo
Music and singing, which are present in every form of worship in the Christian rite, have acquired from the outset a very particular connotation, in which Jewish tradition and Neoplatonism have merged: every musical manifestation in the liturgy has as ...
Cesarino Ruini
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