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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries
The present paper deals with forced migration experienced by subjects of the Byzantine Empire captured by foreign enemies in the context of warfare between the seventh and the tenth centuries. The focus of the first part is on the scenarios faced by individuals and groups when an enemy had taken control of a settlement or a larger territory. The second
Grigori Simeonov
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Fonti pubbliche per la storia dello stato estense (secoli XV e XVI)
Il contributo si sofferma dapprima sulla natura pluralistica e articolata del sistema documentario dello stato estense fra XV e XVI secolo, ben esemplificata tra l’altro dall’ordinamento dell’archivio principesco e dal controllo delle comunità soggette ...
Laura Turchi
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La sconfitta della flotta spagnola nelle acque della Manica nel 1588 trasformò una donna sola e fragile in una delle figure più rilevanti della storia europea di fine XVI secolo: Elisabetta I Tudor divenne per i suoi sudditi una creatura semidivina che ...
Cristina Vallaro
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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever
For centuries after his death in the late twelfth century, Simon of Tournai, a master of theology in the Parisian schools, had a reputation for being an unbeliever punished by God with a stroke. This article gathers the eight known medieval sources for his stroke and examines them from a mythogenetic perspective to demonstrate how different authors ...
Keagan Brewer
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RESEÑA DE: CAPRIOTTI, Giuseppe. Lo scorpione su petto. Iconografia antiebraica tra XV y XVI secolo alla periferia dello Stato Pontificio.
Borja Franco Llopis
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Abstract This essay examines the information‐gathering practices of papal nuncios and legates to argue that they performed much of the same intelligence work, and in a similar manner, as other diplomatic agents in the early modern Europe. It focuses in particular on papal diplomats’ efforts to gather information regarding two areas that proved ...
CHARLES R. KEENAN
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Recenzja: L’università di Bologna. Personaggi, momenti e luoghi dalie origini al XVI secolo, Bologna 1987, pod red. Ovidio Capi tani, stron 227+5 nlb, in IV°.
Irena Malinowska-Kwiatkowska
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Mletačka vojna arhitektura na kopnu i na Jadranu između 16. i 17. stoljeća
L´architettura militare di Venezia in terraferma e in Adriatico fra XVI e XVII secolo, Firenze, ur.
Ana Bašić Alerić
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Nel contesto del censimento delle edizioni e commenti cinquecenteschi della Poetica di Aristotele, si presenta la scheda relativa alla Poetica di De Nores As part of the critical cataloguing of 16th century Aristotele’s Poetica editions and ...
Tancredi Artico
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