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The Italian Academies 1525-1700
The intellectual societies known as Academies played a vital role in the development of culture, and scholarly debate throughout Italy between 1525-1700. They were fundamental in establishing the intellectual networks later defined as the ‘République des Lettres’, and in the dissemination of ideas in early modern Europe, through print, manuscript, oral debate and performance. This volume surveys the social and cultural role of Academies, challenging received ideas and incorporating recent archival findings on individuals, networks and texts. Ranging over Academies in both major and smaller or peripheral centres, these collected studies explore the interrelationships of Academies with ot...
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The Allegory of Love in the Early Renaissance
Described as ‘the most beautiful book ever printed’ previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources. This monograph critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative, placing it within its European literary context. Using narratological analysis, it examines the journey of Poliphilo and the series of symbolic, allegorical, and metaphorical experiences narrated by him that are indicative of his metamorphosing interiority. It analyses the relationship between Poliphilo and his external surroundings in sequences of the narrative pertaining to thresholds; the symbolic architectural, topographical, and garden forms and spaces; and Poliphilo’s transforming interior passions including his love of antiquarianism, language, and Polia, the latter of which leads to his elegiac description of lovesickness, besides examinations of numerosophical symbolism in number, form, and proportion of the architectural descriptions and how they relate to the narrative.
HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI: AN ARCHITECTURAL VISION FROM THE FIRST RENAISSANCE
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK IS ONLY THE 2ND HALF OF ONE SINGLE BOOK. IN ORDER TO HAVE A COMPLETE TEXT, READERS ARE SUGGESTED TO CONSIDER ALSO VOLUME I, AVAILABLE HERE http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0081451017/default.aspx AFTER YEARS OF FIELD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, THIS IS A SECOND BOOK OF WHAT SEEMS TO BECOME A SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS. THE INTENT IS TO RECONSTRUCT THE ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPES DESCRIBED IN THE HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI WITH THE AID OF DIGITAL MEDIUMS. THIS ENIGMATIC INCUNABULUM WITH ITS 172 WOODCUTS, FIRST PUBLISHED IN VENICE IN 1499 BY THE VENETIAN PRESS OF ALDUS MANUTIUS, HAS FASCINATED HISTORIANS, PATRONS, AND ESPECIALLY ARCHITECTS EVER SINCE ITS ANONYMOUS ...
Polpo immondo
In alcune comunità religiose del mondo antico, il divieto di mangiare polpi era parte di una struttura di pensiero che si esprimeva per coppie d’opposti: sacro e profano, mondo e immondo, puro e impuro, lecito e illecito. I cibi erano consentiti o proibiti non perché influenzassero la salute di corpo e anima ma perché si avvertiva il bisogno di ordinare il mondo. L’octopus, oltre ad incarnare vizi e difetti degli uomini, era considerato un mostro votato al male e all’annientamento. Le narrazioni su polpi maestosi, orrendi e famelici erano funzionali alla società: rafforzavano la fede, rinsaldavano la coesione sociale e dettavano regole a cui tutti dovevano sottomettersi. Kraken, piovre e cefalopodi giganteschi rappresentavano la fase primordiale, mai superata e dominata dagli istinti bestiali, nella quale gli uomini, per mancanza di regole,potevano precipitare in qualsiasi momento.
