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Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court
Dirk Jacob Jansen provides an overview of the life and career of the sixteenth-century cosmopolitan courtier, architect and antiquary Jacopo Strada.
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Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age
This volume offers a collection of papers about the notions of fate, providence, and free will, as developed and debated in philosophy and religion in the early Imperial age (ca. 31 BCE-250 CE).
Discourse on the State of the Jews
In 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published “appresso Gioanne Calleoni” under the title “Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice.” It was dedicated to the Doge of Venice and his counsellors, who are labelled “lovers of Truth.” The author of the book was a certain Simone (Simḥa) Luzzatto, a native of Venice, where he lived and died, serving as rabbi for over fifty years during the course of the seventeenth century. Luzzatto’s political thesis is simple and, at the same time, temerarious, if not revolutionary: Venice can put an end to its political decline, he argues, by offering the Jews a...
Pensieri sull’imitazione
Nel giugno del 1755 un oscuro bibliotecario di provincia, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, pubblica a Dresda a proprie spese, in una tiratura di appena 50 esemplari, un anonimo libretto dal titolo Pensieri sull’imitazione delle opere greche nella pittura e nella scultura. Questo breve testo incontrò subito un’enorme fortuna, tanto da circolare addirittura in copie manoscritte, e diede impulso alle più potenti speculazioni dell’epoca: Mendelssohn, Lessing, Herder e Goethe lo considereranno un classico, e persino gli acerrimi nemici del Classicismo di Weimar, come Heinse o Hirt, non poterono fare a meno di confrontarsi con esso. Né si sottrassero a un doveroso omaggio i grandi del Romantic...
