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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Percorsi di un testo “fortunato”. I Dialogi di Gregorio Magno nella Sicilia medievale (secoli XII-XIV)

Reti Medievali Rivista, 2013
Il saggio ricostruisce due “capitoli siciliani” dell’enorme successo goduto in epoca medievale dai Dialogi di Gregorio Magno. Si tratta della leggenda, a sfondo siciliano, elaborata da Pietro diacono a Montecassino tra XI e XII secolo su Placido, un ...
Rossana Barcellona
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Reading Dürer in Late Sixteenth‐Century Padua: Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582), His Library and the Annotated Institutionum geometricarum (Paris, 1535)

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ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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Cavalieri di campagna (Italia, secoli XI-XIII): casi di studio, parte II

Reti Medievali Rivista
Sono qui raccolti quattro contributi dedicati a singoli casi di studio, particolarmente ben documentati, che illustrano la multiforme natura della preminenza cavalleresca nelle società rurali italiane tra XI e XIII secolo.
Sandro Carocci, Maria Elena Cortese
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Tesi di dottorato

Reti Medievali Rivista, 2002
Segnalazione di tesi di dottorato. Rosanna Alaggio Natura, santi e sovrani. Brindisi nel Medioevo, Tesi di dottorato di ricerca in Storia medievale, Università degli studi di Palermo, 2002   Letteria Anagni Rosario Gregorio, storico del medioevo
Redazione Reti Medievali (a cura di)
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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-33, February 2026.
Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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Lezione sulla medievistica del Novecento

Reti Medievali Rivista, 2006
Si tratta del testo di una lezione tenuta nel 1994 a un pubblico di insegnanti della scuola media superiore. In rapida sintesi, si propongono i grandi problemi attorno ai quali si è incentrata nel Novecento la ricerca sul medioevo europeo (sino al secolo
Giovanni Tabacco
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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The Fashioning of the Humanist Governor at the Dawn of a New Political and Cultural Era: Francesco Barbaro as Podestà of Venetian Vicenza

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 473-492, September 2025.
Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
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